Definition of Peneplains

1. peneplain [n] - See also: peneplain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peneplains

pendulum watch
pendulumlike
pendulums
pene
pene-
pene-enclave
pene-exclave
penecontemporaneous
penecontemporaneously
penectomies
pened
penelope
peneplain
peneplains (current term)
peneplane
peneplanes
penetrabilities
penetrability
penetrable
penetrably
penetralia
penetralium
penetrameter
penetrameters
penetrance
penetrances
penetrant

Literary usage of Peneplains

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Ghana Geological Survey (1898)
"THE TERTIARY peneplains AND SCARP DEVELOPMENT Within Ghana, two major erosional surfaces are recognised. The older occurs between feet and 1250 feet and the ..."

2. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"peneplains. It is doubtful whether any extensive land area was ever worn down to a perfect base-level; but great areas have been worn down almost to that ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"... Peat : peneplains ; Petroleum ; Physical geography; Rocks; Soils; Volcanoes; also Geological society of America. Africa. Geology of the Transvaal. ..."

4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1901)
"... and those whose basic constituent in place of the alkalis is chiefly calcium, are the products of one magma. peneplains OF THE OZARK HIGHLAND. ..."

5. Manual of Physical Geography by Frederick Valentine Emerson (1909)
"The Briceville region is described in the Brice- ville Folio, USGS 100. peneplains Harrisburg Quadrangle, Pennsylvania. — It is believed that two ancient ..."

6. Practical Physiography by Harold Wellman Fairbanks (1906)
"peneplains. — We have already traced the various stages which the features of a region go through during a geographic cycle: the uplift of the land, ..."

7. County Reports and Maps: Jefferson, Berkeley and Morgan Counties by George Perry Grimsley (1916)
"--In the eastern Panhandle Counties of West Virginia, the remnants of these four peneplains are found in many places, the younger plains naturally being ..."

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