erosion surface
Americannoun
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There is practically none of it near the present erosion surface; but it appears in one part of the district near an older erosion surface covered by Cambrian sediments, suggesting a different climatic condition at that time.
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This process has been related not only to the present erosion surface, but to older surfaces now partly buried under later rocks.
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Where the old erosion surface roughly coincides with the present erosion surface, the deposits follow more or less the topography.
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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.
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They vary with the climatic conditions which obtain on the erosion surface.
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