What does «geomorfología» mean in Spanish?
- Part of physical geography that deals with the description and explanation of present-day land relief. In other words, it is the science that describes, orders and investigates the origin and development of the form of the terrestrial relief or topology (geo = earth, morph = form, logy = study). If it is studied on another planet, one should say morphology of the Moon, morphology of Mars, etc. Geomorphology studies, for example, the features of relief and their classification, the proportion of rockiness, erosive processes, origin and formation of mountains, plains, valleys, the dynamics of the Earth's internal processes, etc.