peneplane


Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

pe·ne·plain

also pe·ne·plane  (pē′nə-plān′)
n.
A nearly flat land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion.
[pene-, almost (from Latin paene) + plain.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.peneplane - a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movementspeneplane - a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements
peneplain
geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
champaign, plain, field - extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
The Precambrian peneplane that formed the basement in much of the Baltoscandian region offered limited weathering products and this led to an overall starvation of terrigenous siliciclastics in the palaeobasin.
The Cambrian--Ordovician succession at Lanna, Sweden: stratigraphy and depositional environments
8) due to laterally-changing environmental conditions that are related to the gradually-reducing altitude gap with respect to the bottom and the shoulders of any swell located on the peneplane, the variable discharge of the waterways, and the distance from the coastline and the sediment source.
The Middle Jurassic Alpine Tethyan unconformity and the eastern Sardinia - Corsica Jurassic high: a sedimentary and regional analysis

Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?