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Definition of Peneplain
1. Noun. A more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements.
Definition of Peneplain
1. n. A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain, but not wholly devoid of hills; a base-level plain.
Definition of Peneplain
1. Noun. A region of faint or low relief, a based-level plain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peneplain
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peneplain
Literary usage of Peneplain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"This very extensive peneplain was formed in Jurassic (qv) and Cretaceous (qv) time,
... It has also been called the Kittatinny or Schooley peneplain, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"Now the curious feature about this view is that the supposed dissected peneplain
of the Sierra Costa mountains seems continuous with the more western ..."
3. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1904)
"Wilson describes the Laurentian peneplain of the great pre-Cambrian shield of Canada
... The peneplain is an ancient one, which has undergone differential ..."
4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1899)
"4 THE peneplain. By WM DAVIS, Cambridge, Mass. [Plate VII. ... At the outset,
allow me to correct the implication that the "peneplain idea" was original ..."
5. Report on the Lead and Zinc Deposits of Wisconsin: With an Atlas of Detailed by Ulysses Sherman Grant (1906)
"This peneplain is now represented by the level uplands already described. The only
parts of the district which were not reduced ..."
6. Physiography of the St. Louis Area by Nevin Melancthon Fenneman (1909)
"THE peneplain. The reduction of the uplifted post-Carboniferous surface to a
peneplain of ... The time at which this peneplain was completed is not known. ..."
7. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"THE SCHOOLEY peneplain STAGE. At the close of the Paleozoic period, the sediments
which had been accumulated in the Interior Sea to the west of the Piedmont ..."
8. Bulletin by Kentucky Geological Survey, Kentucky State Geologist (1906)
"Knobs and hills rising above the Lexington peneplain. View looking from the road
east of ... southward across the peneplain. Estill and Madison Counties. ..."
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