A German term used to describe a steep-sided hill composed of rock that rises from a pediplain.

lit. sland mountain-(from the German). A stand-alone mountain or hill which rises steeply from much flatter surroundings.

Prominent steep-sided residual hills and mountains rising abruptly from plains. The residuals are generally bare and rocky, large and small, isolated and in hill and mountain groups, and they are surrounded by lowland surfaces of erosion that are generally true plains, as distinguished from peneplains.

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