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erosion surface

noun

, Geology.
  1. an eroded land surface, especially one that is nearly flat and featureless.


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The remnants of this old erosion surface are now found upwarped to various heights in different portions of its area.

Such an erosion surface, called an “unconformity,” marks a gap in the geological record of the district where it occurs.

This process has been related not only to the present erosion surface, but to older surfaces now partly buried under later rocks.

Where the old erosion surface roughly coincides with the present erosion surface, the deposits follow more or less the topography.

They vary with the climatic conditions which obtain on the erosion surface.

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