Peneplain - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics A peneplain is defined as an extensive erosion surface created by prolonged mass wasting and downwearing, characterized by minimal relief that allows rivers to reach the sea, serving as the ultimate base level It may be rejuvenated by geological uplift or changes in base level, leading to renewed erosion
Erosion, isostatic response, and the missing peneplains The peneplain—a low-relief erosional plain worn to near base level—is a venerable concept in geomorphology, geology, and geography Yet despite more than a century of effort, no convincing example of a contemporary peneplain has been identified, and the identification of relict peneplains is uncertain and controversial
Late Miocene-Pliocene geomorphological evolution of the Xiaoshuizi . . . Based on the integration of high-resolution magnetostratigraphy analysis and Pliocene mammal fossils, we demonstrate that the red clay-loess succession deposited on the Xiaoshuizi peneplain probably began to accumulate at ~ 6 9 Ma, implying that the Xiaoshuizi peneplain had begun to form before this
A late Paleogene erosion event in the Sanshui Basin, southern margin of . . . We assigned 29 Ma as the initial time of the late Cenozoic erosion event in the Sanshui Basin primarily on the basis of volcanic ages Previous studies on planation surfaces suggest that following the late Cretaceous to the Oligocene, the onshore southern SCB margin was largely a peneplain (Zhang and Huang, 1995; Zhou et al , 2008)
Landscape evolution of a bedrock peneplain on the southern Tibetan . . . The subhorizontal peneplain remnants appear in greenish color and are outlined with a purple dashed line Note that slope angles in the valleys dissecting the peneplain increase towards lower elevation as shown by the increasing intensity of the red color towards lower elevation
Cycling of rare earth elements at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary Evidence for the mobility and concentration of REEs and strontium at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary peneplain is recorded in Scotland The unconformity surface is marked by a concentration of phyllosilicate (pinite, a massive variety of muscovite, probably metamorphosed from illite), coloured variably green, yellow and pink (Fig 5, Fig 6)
Regolith residence time and the concept of surface age of the Piedmont . . . This results in a continual lowering of the Piedmont "peneplain" surface This interpretation is corroborated by evidence of topo- graphic inversion of fluvial gravels since the Miocene near the Fall Line Study of baseflow dissolved solids draining Piedmont basins indicates a minimum rate of saprolite production of about 4 m Ma- i
Stratigraphic Landscape Analysis and geomorphological paradigms . . . Stratigraphic Landscape Analysis is defined, based on empiric studies of the South Swedish Dome The relationship between relief in basement and cover rocks of different age directly on basement is investigated Crosscutting relationships between peneplains of different tilt and character, both re-exposed and epigene, are analysed Stratigraphic analysis of all Scandinavian relief results in
The Pan-Amazonian Ucayali Peneplain, late Neogene sedimentation in . . . The Ucayali Peneplain was first identified by Kummel (1948) in the Contamana region of the Ucayali River valley of north central Amazonian Peru (Fig 1) He described the peneplain as having formed on the rock formations of the Contamana Group, which comprise the older Tertiary “red bed” sequence in Peru
Cretaceous to Cenozoic evolution of the northern Lhasa Terrane and the . . . Such degraded or ruined peneplain remnants typically surround the more-or-less preserved peneplain areas The peneplains were carved into bedrocks, mostly in granitoids, however in the southern area some peneplains were formed in the Jurassic low-grade metamorphic siltstone-sandstone sequences and also in the Cretaceous ignimbrite complex