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Definition of Peneplane
1. Noun. A more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements.
Definition of Peneplane
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peneplane
Literary usage of Peneplane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands by New York Academy of Sciences (1922)
"THE CORDILLERA CENTRAL Practically all of the other residuals rising above the
peneplane level are concentrated in a chain of peaks along its southern ..."
2. Geology and Physiography of Porto Rico by New York Academy of Sciences (1919)
"peneplane It has already been stated that the interior mountainous region ...
The peneplane level, occasionally discernible among the crests south of the. ..."
3. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1921)
"the Laurentian peneplane cutting across the folds. ... This shows the completed
Laurentian peneplane, upon which the Huronian and later Algonkian sediments ..."
4. A Comprehensive Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1921)
"the Laurentian peneplane cutting across the folds. ... This shows the completed
Laurentian peneplane, upon which the Huronian and later Algonkian sediments ..."
5. Shore Processes and Shoreline Development by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1919)
"Of very great importance is the fact that loi.g-continued wave action must reduce
broad land areas to a plane, or at least to a peneplane, of marine ..."
6. Australasia by Henry Rees (1907)
"peneplane or plateau of Ballarat, historically the most famous of the Australian
... Beyond the basin of the Upper Yarra comes a high, extensive peneplane, ..."
7. Geography of the Central Andes: A Handbook to Accompany the La Paz Sheet of by Alan Grant Ogilvie (1922)
"The original character of an uplifted peneplane has been almost completely ...
Moreover, the Cordillera Real even at the time when the peneplane surface had ..."
8. Map of Hispanic America Publication (1922)
"It may be further surmised with reason that an old erosion surface, if not a
peneplane, extended out over the edge of the present Pacific Ocean. ..."
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