This group collects the Landform Concepts subcategory's members that name and define broad, low-relief or structural upland surfaces and the terms geomorphologists use to describe long-term erosion and relief: peneplains, pediplains, etchplains, planation and erosion surfaces, dissected plateaus, terraces, benches, saddles, flatirons, outcrops and inverted relief. These are the subcategory's general-relief vocabulary, distinct from the specific agents of erosion (ice, water, wind) that shape the coastal, fluvial, glacial and aeolian groups elsewhere in this subcategory.
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Defining ProcessIn geology and physical geography, a plateau, also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side. 1 Browse By
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In geology and physical geography, a plateau (; French: [plato]; pl.: plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.
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