The Belarusian Ridge ( Belarusian : Беларуская града , romanized : Bielaruskaja hrada ) is a line of terminal moraines , which is almost entirely in the northwest of Belarus . The feature is part of the East European Plain .
7-551: This ridge , consisting of low, rolling hills , runs for about 500 km in the direction from west-southwest to east-northeast, from the area of the Brest region, which is close to the border of Poland to the Russian town of Smolensk . The ridge is a limit of the last advance of the ice sheet, which defines its geological constitution: mostly moraine loams with added glacial and alluvial sediments . River valleys divide
14-449: 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
21-408: 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
28-609: Is called Wzgórza Sokólskie , of area about 1,300sq.km. A small patch in the north belongs to Lithuania To the east it connects to the Smolensk–Moscow Upland , Russia via a narrow corridor called the Smolensk Gate [ pl ] between swampy areas of Dnieper and Dzwina river systems, of strategic military significance. 53°52′26″N 26°59′09″E / 53.87389°N 26.98583°E / 53.87389; 26.98583 Ridge A ridge
35-678: 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
42-521: The ridge into sections, uplands. The ridge stretches approximately from west to east and separated two major lowlands: Polesie Lowland to the south and Neman Lowland [ be ] and Polatsk Lowland [ be ] to the north. The highest elevation of the ridge (and the whole Belarus) is Mount Dzyarzhynskaya , 365m. The part of the Grodno upland [ be ] within Poland
49-409: 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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