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).
First recorded in 1885-90; pene- + plain1
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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