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- In geomorphology, cryoplanation or is a term used to both describe and explain the formation of plains, terraces and pediments in periglacial environments...
- formation of flattish surfaces (peneplains) of mixed origin (polygenetic). Cryoplanation is a variant of pediplanation that is restricted to cold climates. Atacama...
- periglaciationPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Cryoplanation terrace – Formation of plains, terraces and pediments in periglacial...
- addition to these there are planation surfaces proposed to be formed by cryoplanation, marine processes, areal glacial erosion and salt weathering. The term...
- ground, blockfields, solifluction landforms, blockstreams, tors and cryoplanation terraces. The occurrence or not of these periglacial landforms depends...
- 5350–5700 m on the Argentine side. They are solifluction surfaces, cryoplanation surfaces, block ramparts, and patterned ground. Permafrost is found...
- lists paleosurfaces as one of various categorizations of paleoplains. Cryoplanation surface – Formation of plains, terraces and pediments in periglacial...
- replacement, and retreat imply. An earlier cyclical model on the formation of cryoplanation terraces was proposed in 1943 by Soviet scientists S.G. Boch and I.I...
- where cryogenic processes are active. The terraces may be referred as cryoplanation terraces albeit this term is controversial. Each scarp represent a flow...
- also unrelated to any glacial buzzsaw effect. Climatic geomorphology Cryoplanation Summit accordance Truncated upland Erosion rates can be estimated knowing...