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- peneplanation. The coalesced pediments of the pediplains may form a series of very gentle concave slopes. Pediplains main difference to W. M. Davis’ peneplains...
- concept is often juxtaposed to that of pediplain. However authors like Karna Lidmar-Bergström classify pediplains as a type of peneplain. On the contrary...
- peneplains (almost plain) while plains formed from wind action are called pediplains. Structural plains are relatively undisturbed horizontal surfaces of the...
- of Africa, planation surfaces in northern Ethiopia do not appear to be pediplains nor etchplains. Spatial distribution of temperature in Ethiopia is determined...
- geomorphology it has been noted that many savannas occur in areas of pediplains and inselbergs. It has been posited that river incision is not prominent...
- with Congo Basin relief is made up a single large pediplain. Heights that rise above this pediplain contain laterite soils, sometimes with pisolites or...
- and Deccan Lava (Malwa) plateau. According to Heron (1953), the eastern pediplain, occurring between the Vindhyan plateau and the Aravalli hill range, contains...
- Karl Gilbert suggested backwearing of slopes would shape landscapes into pediplains, and W.J. McGee named these landscapes pediments. This later gave the...
- or impotent". Lester Charles King, who coined the competing concept of pediplains, wrote: A peneplain in the Davisian sense, resulting from slope reduction...
- the relatively plain areas in the southern part can be categorised as pediplains. ii) Major Drainage - Mahanadi basin occupies nearly 71% area in the central...