erosion surface


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

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How to use erosion surface in a sentence

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

    The Elements of Geology | William Harmon Norton
  • Such an erosion surface, called an “unconformity,” marks a gap in the geological record of the district where it occurs.

    Geology | William J. Miller
  • 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.