Definitions for peneplain

peneplain pe·ne·plain

Spelling: [pee-nuh-pleyn, pee-nuh-pleyn]
IPA: /ˈpi nəˌpleɪn, ˌpi nəˈpleɪn/

Peneplain is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in peneplain (aeeilnnpp).

Definitions for peneplain

noun

  1. an area reduced almost to a plain by erosion.

Origin of peneplain

First recorded in 1885-90; pene- + plain1

Examples for peneplain

They appear to correspond with the level of the first peneplain recognized in the Devil's lake region.

Should you expect the velocity of an earthquake to be greater in a peneplain or in a river delta?

At a stage shortly preceding the base-level stage the surface would be a peneplain.

A few other points in the vicinity failed to be reduced to the level of the peneplain.

Like the deep decomposition-soils in moister regions, it indicates a peneplain on which erosion has ceased.

This peneplain was later upraised into a plateau and its downward inclination towards the east increased.

The final result is the reduction of the land surface to an approximate plain, called a peneplain, somewhere near sea level.

The bottoms of the broad depressions represent the Shenandoah peneplain, which is sharply trenched by the modern river channels.

A peneplain, therefore, is a surface which has been brought toward, but not to base-level.

The whole land area at the time of flooding was virtually a peneplain.

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