A dip slope is a topographic surface that slopes in the same direction, and often at nearly the same angle, as the true or apparent dip of the rock strata beneath it. It forms the upper surface of a resistant caprock layer that erosion has lowered only slightly, and it makes up the gentler backslope of landforms such as cuestas, homoclinal ridges, hogbacks and flatirons, whose opposite frontslope is a steeper escarpment or line of cliffs cut through the same dipping strata.
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In Discipline: Geomorphology, Lead paragraph
A dip slope is a topographic or geomorphic surface which slopes in the same direction, and often by the same angle, as the true dip or apparent dip of the underlying strata
Caused By: Erosion, Lead paragraph
Dip slopes are the result of the differential erosion of strata of varying resistance to erosion that are dipping uniformly in one direction
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