Development of a Peneplane

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Diagram showing the development of a peneplane from anticlinal ridges and the reappearance of the uniclinal topography after elevation and renewed erosion. This is the type of structure found in the Appalachians.

Keywords

Development, anticline, peneplane, unicline

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Structural Geology

Source

Amadeus W. Grabau A Textbook of Geology (Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1920) 737

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