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Piedmont

Warped plateau

Hogback

Symmetrical anticline

Great plain

Marine

Cascades

Volcanic mts

Colorado

Faulted plateau

Black hills

Dome

Sierra nevada

Flault block mts

Mississippi delta

Alluvial plain

Columbia

Lava plateau

Bonneville

Lake plain

Ozark

Warped plateau

Mesa

Large flat top hill

Rockies

Complex mts

Cuesta

Asstmeteical anticline

Mountain making event

Orogenis

Permanent deformation

Plastic

Enclosed syncline

Basin

Basin and range

Horst and graben structure

Appalachians

Folded mountain

Strike slip fault

No vertical displacement