Pediplain

<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2>
<ul><li>Atacama Pediplain<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/South_Sudan/DacJpKfT">South Sudan</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Erosion_surface/d70xV7of">Erosion surface</a> – Natural surface created by rock erosion</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Etchplain/rmF0QsdB">Etchplain</a> – Plain where the bedrock has been subject to considerable subsurface weathering</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Paleosurface/yCJs5exw">Paleosurface</a> – Surface made by erosion of considerable antiquity</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Planation_surface/XLmQHfd3">Planation surface</a> – Large-scale land surface that is almost flat</li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Jones, David K.C. (2004). "Denudation chronology". In Goudie, A.S. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Geomorphology. pp. 244–248. <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Goudie_(geographer)" target="_blank">/wiki/Andrew_Goudie_(geographer)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Migoń, Piotr (2004). "Planation surface". In Goudie, A.S. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Geomorphology. pp. 788–792. <a href="/wiki/Piotr_Migo%C5%84" target="_blank">/wiki/Piotr_Migo%C5%84</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Twidale, C.R. (1992). "King of the plains: Lester King's contributions to geomorphology". Geomorphology. 5 (6): 491–499. Bibcode:1992Geomo...5..491T. doi:10.1016/0169-555x(92)90021-f. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Rowland_Twidale" target="_blank">/wiki/Charles_Rowland_Twidale</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>King himself held that: : A peneplain in the Davisian sense, resulting from slope reduction and downwearing, does not exist in nature. It should be redefined as "an imaginary landform."[4] <a href="/wiki/Hillslope_evolution" target="_blank">/wiki/Hillslope_evolution</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>It is argued by T.J. Fair that peneplains also have these gentle concave forms, but W. M. Davis’ view on the issue is not clear, meaning possibly that he might have held that peneplains had very  gentle convex slopes.[4] <a href="/wiki/William_Morris_Davis" target="_blank">/wiki/William_Morris_Davis</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>King, L.C. (1953). "Canons of landscape evolution". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 64 (7): 721–752. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1953)64[721:cole]2.0.co;2. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Jones, David K.C. (2004). "Denudation chronology". In Goudie, A.S. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Geomorphology. pp. 244–248. <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Goudie_(geographer)" target="_blank">/wiki/Andrew_Goudie_(geographer)</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>Twidale, C.R. (1992). "King of the plains: Lester King's contributions to geomorphology". Geomorphology. 5 (6): 491–499. Bibcode:1992Geomo...5..491T. doi:10.1016/0169-555x(92)90021-f. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Rowland_Twidale" target="_blank">/wiki/Charles_Rowland_Twidale</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:9"><p>Migoń, Piotr (2004). "Planation surface". In Goudie, A.S. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Geomorphology. pp. 788–792. <a href="/wiki/Piotr_Migo%C5%84" target="_blank">/wiki/Piotr_Migo%C5%84</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:10"><p>"Pediplain". Encyclopædia Britannica. <a href="http://global.britannica.com/science/pediplain" target="_blank">http://global.britannica.com/science/pediplain</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:11"><p>Fairbridge, Rhodes W.; Finkl Jr., Charles W. (1980). "Cratonic erosion unconformities and peneplains". The Journal of Geology. 88 (1): 69–86. Bibcode:1980JG.....88...69F. doi:10.1086/628474. <a href="/wiki/Rhodes_Fairbridge" target="_blank">/wiki/Rhodes_Fairbridge</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:12"><p>Migoń, Piotr (2004). "Planation surface". In Goudie, A.S. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Geomorphology. pp. 788–792. <a href="/wiki/Piotr_Migo%C5%84" target="_blank">/wiki/Piotr_Migo%C5%84</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:13"><p>Muñoz-Farías, Sebastián; Ritter, Benedikt; Dunai, Tibor J.; Morales-Leal, Jorge; Campos, Eduardo; Spikings, Richard; Riquelme, Rodrigo (2023). "Geomorphological significance of the Atacama Pediplain as a marker for the climatic and tectonic evolution of the Andean forearc, between 26° to 28°S". Geomorphology. 420. Bibcode:2023Geomo.42008504M. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108504. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X2200397X" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X2200397X</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:14"><p>Fölster, Horst (1964). "Morphogenese der südsudanischen Pediplane". Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie (in German). 8 (4): 393–423. <a href="/wiki/Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Geomorphologie" target="_blank">/wiki/Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Geomorphologie</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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