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Discovering a meaning in scenery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. H. Crickmay
C. H. Crickmay*
Affiliation:
525 Salem Avenue, Calgary 4, Alberta, Canada
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Summary

A problem is seen in the claim (made ten years ago) that, under certain conditions, either during uplift of the crust or statically at high levels, denudation alone might develop a peneplain. Observations are now brought forward which seem to indicate that uplift, when active, exceeds the rate of stream erosion, which in turn always exceeds the rate of denudation; and from this, doubt arises as to the postulated peneplain origins.

Type
Research Article
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 109 , Issue 2 , March 1972 , pp. 171 - 177
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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