Peneplains

The oldest landforms, the remnants of large peneplains, can be seen in the Gouland Downs and Mount Arthur Tablelands. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The post-Miocene uplift that created three peneplains, or steep plains of erosion, have also served as biogeographic barriers, isolating taxonomic groups. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Tertiary rocks overlie other peneplains to form spectacular high altitude moors like the Thousand Acre Plateau. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The landscape is a mixture of mostly forested lowlands of undulating peneplains and floodplains with a patchwork of upland elements. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The peneplains lie between the Caura and Paragua Rivers that bisect the ecoregion and comprise gently undulating lowlands interspersed with low hills to 500 m elevation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Geologists call it a peneplain, which means nearly-a-plain; it is from fragmentary remains of peneplains that they trace ranges long ages washed away. ❋ Robert Sterling Yard (1903)

The Appalachian Mountain uplift, which, roughly speaking, embraces all the ranges constituting the eastern rib of the continent, may be considered to include also the very ancient peneplains of New England. ❋ Robert Sterling Yard (1903)

Revived by the uplift, the streams of the area trenched it as deeply as its elevation permitted, and reaching grade, opened up wide valleys and new peneplains in the softer rocks. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

Thus many peneplains which have been elevated and dissected have been recognized by the remnants of their ancient erosion surfaces, and the length of time which has elapsed since their uplift has been measured by the stage to which the new cycle has advanced. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

Where peneplains have been uplifted to great height and have since been well dissected, and where they have been upfolded and broken and uptilted, their recognition becomes more difficult. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

The entire region is divided into two main regions namely ghats and peneplains. ❋ Unknown (2010)