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Photographs showing the landforms on Missões Plateau. Undulating hills with slope, valley and hollow element. Source: authors.
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In Brazil, the Pampa Biome is restricted to the far south in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where it occupies an area of 176,496 km², which corresponds to 63% of the territory state and 2.07% of the Brazilian territory. The biome is characterized by the predominance of native fields with the presence of riparian forests, hillside forests, dwarf-pa...
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... the portion towards the border of the Plateau the forms of large hills and buttes (Figure 6) are relatively more significant, while in the portions towards Missões Plateau the undulating hills are more important. At Missões Plateau the dissection processes that develop the undulating hills are the most important, making up 53% of the lanforms and defining sector 01 ( Figure 7A). In the west direction, the planing processes become relatively more important, and are represented by the relief of slightly undulations hills ( Figure 7B) that occur in more than 42% of the landforms (sector 02). ...
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... Missões Plateau the dissection processes that develop the undulating hills are the most important, making up 53% of the lanforms and defining sector 01 ( Figure 7A). In the west direction, the planing processes become relatively more important, and are represented by the relief of slightly undulations hills ( Figure 7B) that occur in more than 42% of the landforms (sector 02). The planing process is represented by the predominance of flat element, with 30.4%, and footslope with 17.7%. ...
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