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erosion surface

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noun

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


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Where the old erosion surface pitches below later sediments, the ores pitch with it, and therefore do not follow the present topography.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

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

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

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

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

When this fact of secondary enrichment was discovered, it was naturally assumed that the process was related to the present erosion surface and to present climatic and hydrologic conditions.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

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

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

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