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Examples of peneplain
peneplain
An African peneplain elevated by doming along the Eastern Rift Valley.
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A raised peneplain is a peneplain that has undergone uplift.
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Yala is situated in the lowest peneplain of Sri Lanka, which extends from Trincomalee to Hambantota.
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During the Pliocene period the Coast Mountains did not exist and a level peneplain extended to the sea.
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That dotted line is the old peneplain.
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One peneplain that is visible from a distance, raised up for all to see, that is really cool, is the Catskill Mountains.
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Anyway, the Grand Canyon represents the beginning of intense erosion that occurs when there is an uplifted peneplain.
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The plateau is characterised by hills and valleys in the southwest and a more gentle peneplain in the southwest.
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Go look for this in your own neighborhood, maybe you've been living on or near an ancient raised peneplain all your life and never noticed it.
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- A more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements
- A peneplain is a low-relief plain representing the final stage of fluvial erosion during times of extended tectonic stability. ...
- Low and nearly featureless land surface of considerable area which has been produced by the processes of long continued erosion
- "A plain made by the wearing down of ancient mountains is usually spoken of as a peneplain that is, a region worn down nearly to a plain in a place where, formerly, there was rougher topography. ...
- A smooth, rolling erosion surface that develops late in the cycle of erosion.
- A hypothetical extensive area of low elevation and relief reduced to near sea level by a long period of erosion and representing the end product of the ideal geomorphic cycle.
- A land surface worn down by erosion to a nearly flat or broadly undulating plain; the penultimate stage of old age of the land produced by the forces of erosion. (AGI)
- A nearly flat surface that lies at an elevation close to sea level; thought to be the product of long-term erosion.
- A region reduced almost to a plain by the long-continued normal erosion of a land surface. It should be distinguished from a plain produced by the attack of waves along a coast or the built-up flood plain of a river.
