peneplain 的定义
Geology.
- an area reduced almost to a plain by erosion.
更多peneplain例句
- The bottoms of the broad depressions represent the Shenandoah peneplain, which is sharply trenched by the modern river channels.
- This peneplain was later upraised into a plateau and its downward inclination towards the east increased.
- The suggestion has been offered that the northern portion of the Coast Range is a dissected peneplain.
- In other words, the western slope is a tilted peneplain, bearing on its surface remnants of older uplands.
- Immense regional intrusions, the cores of once lofty mountain ranges, are found upon the Laurentian peneplain.