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depression
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landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- landform
- Part of
- body of water
- Said to be same as
- sink
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- different from
- major depressive disorder
- topic's main category
- Category:Depressions (geology)
- Commons category
- Depression (geology)
- less than
- surroundings
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Encyclopedic overview
A watering hole is a natural depression where water collects and animals (such as these impala) come to drink. A karstic closed depression with the permanent lake Stymfalia, in Peloponnese, Greece. Seasonal abundant precipitation is drained by three sinkholes.
In geology, a depression is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions form by various mechanisms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “depression” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.