peneplained, a. Geomorphol.
(ˈpiːniːpleɪnd)
Also -planed.
[f. peneplain n. + -ed2.]
Made into a peneplain.
| 1904 Chamberlin & Salisbury Geol. (1905) I. iii. 85 (caption) A peneplaned surface where the elevations are small but steep-sided. 1922 Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey No. 730. 2 The older peneplaned surface was elevated, tilted, and dissected. 1963 D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation ii. 34 (caption) Both figures show the Natal monocline, where most of the peneplaned surfaces are dated by marine beds which they cut across near the coast. 1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. i. 2/2 The peneplained basement was deeply weathered under podozolising influences. 1978 Nature 13 July 131/2 Middle Jurassic sandstones were here laid down directly on the peneplaned Caledonian basement. |