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Peneplain

noun
1.
A more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements.  Synonym: peneplane.





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... water. The rocks that remain are like fragments of snow or ice that have so far withstood the weather. Geologists tell us that the great Appalachian chain has been in the course of the ages reduced almost to a base level or peneplain, and then reelevated and its hills ...
— Time and Change • John Burroughs


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