hillocks in English

noun
1
a small hill or mound.
This is the top of Pole Hill, a wooded hillock in Norman Tebbitt's old stomping round of Chingford.
synonyms:moundsmall hillprominenceelevationriseknollhummockhumpdunebankridgeknobeminence
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1. This restoration entails the reconstruction of the dune hillocks and abrasion platforms of the second ridge of dunes, as well as the recovery of the network of small lagoons known as malladas.

2. This programme aims to restore the undulatory morphology of the landscape by reconstructing the dune hillocks and abrasion platforms of the second ridge of dunes, as well as an important network of malladas.

3. At the foot of the slope, the soils developed on terraces made of ancient alluvial deposits and on the ‘montilles’ — small hillocks formed by recent alluvial deposits in the main riverbed — are permeable and sandy-gravelly.

4. The procedure will involve the execution of actions contrary to those that caused the degradation of the area: the sand which at present is covering the depressions corresponding to the malladas and the abrasion platforms will be extracted to be used to construct the dune hillocks.