The Kaczawskie Mountains or Katzbach Mountains ( Polish : Góry Kaczawskie ; German : Katzbachgebirge ) are a mountain range in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship of Poland . It is roughly 30 kilometres long and belongs to the Western Sudetes . Its highest peak is the Skopiec (719 m). To the north of the Kaczawskie Mountains are the Kaczawskie Foothills ( Polish : Pogórze Kaczawskie ; German : Bober-Katzbach-Vorgebirge ).
6-740: The ridge , which runs from northwest to southeast at heights between 400 and 700 metres, is a fold mountain range consisting of limestone , slate and dolomite . In the west the Bóbr separates the range from the Jizera Mountains and Jizera Foreland ; to the north are the Katzbach Foothills; to the east the Raging Neisse / Nysa Szalona forms the boundary. In the southeast, the Katzbach Mountains merge into
12-449: A ridge can be further subdivided into smaller geomorphic or structural elements. As in the case of landforms in general, there is a lack of any commonly agreed classification or typology of ridges. They can be defined and classified on the basis of a variety of factors including either genesis, morphology, composition, statistical analysis of remote sensing data, or some combinations of these factors. An example of ridge classification
18-408: Is a long, narrow, elevated geomorphologic landform , structural feature , or a combination of both separated from the surrounding terrain by steep sides. The sides of a ridge slope away from a narrow top, the crest or ridgecrest , with the terrain dropping down on either side. The crest, if narrow, is also called a ridgeline . Limitations on the dimensions of a ridge are lacking. Its height above
24-678: Is that of Schoeneberger and Wysocki, which provides a relatively simple and straightforward system that is used by the USA National Cooperative Soil Survey Program to classify ridges and other landforms. This system uses the dominant geomorphic process or setting to classify different groups of landforms into two major groups, Geomorphic Environments and Other Groupings with a total of 16 subgroups. The groups and their subgroups are not mutually exclusive; landforms, including ridges, can belong to multiple subgroups. In this classification, ridges are found in
30-623: The Waldenburg Mountains . To the south, the Landeshut Ridge / Rudawy Janowickie and Jelenia Góra Valley form the transition to the Giant Mountains . 50°57′47″N 15°50′49″E / 50.963056°N 15.846944°E / 50.963056; 15.846944 This Lower Silesian Voivodeship location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mountain ridge A ridge
36-409: The surrounding terrain can vary from less than a meter to hundreds of meters. A ridge can be either depositional , erosional , tectonic , or a combination of these in origin and can consist of either bedrock , loose sediment , lava , or ice depending on its origin. A ridge can occur as either an isolated, independent feature or part of a larger geomorphological and/or structural feature. Frequently,
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