A geological term describing the various processes that wear away landforms
Denudation is the geological process in which moving water, ice, wind, and waves erode the Earth's surface, leading to a reduction in elevation and in relief of landforms and landscapes. Although the terms erosion and denudation are used interchangeably, erosion is the transport of soil and rocks from one location to another,[1] and denudation is the sum of processes, including erosion, that result in the lowering of Earth's surface.[2] Endogenous processes such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and tectonic uplift can expose continental crust to the exogenous processes of weathering, erosion, and mass wasting. The effects of denudation have been recorded for millennia but the mechanics behind it have been debated for the past 200 years[when?] and have only begun to be understood in the past few decades.[3][when?]
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response in the region of denudation (which can cause local bedrock uplift). The timing, magnitude, and rate of denudation can be estimated by geologists...
flowing lava. Erosional plains have been leveled by various agents of denudation such as running water, rivers, wind and glacier which wear out the rugged...
the lowlands and mudslides to the hills, especially after wildfires have denuded the slopes. Both freezing temperatures and snowfall are extremely rare...
in places the uplifted peneplain can be traced as summit accordances. Denudation in the Mesozoic is counted at most in hundreds of meters. The inselberg...
Isles, (Paleogene) denudation is linked with magmatic underplating. It has been shown that the wavelength and amplitude of denudation can be determined...
similar heights above sea-level, but whose bases depend upon the amount of denudation to which the plateau has been subjected in various places. The region...
temperature of the Earth. Denudation is the process of wearing away the top layers of Earth's landscape. Because the rate of denudation is normally too small...
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Wylie; Sevon, William D. (September 1989). "A record of Appalachian denudation in postrift Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary deposits of the U.S. Middle...
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topographic denudation. By contrast with glacial U-shaped valleys, there is less downward and sideways erosion. The severe downslope denudation results in...
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Galer, Stephen J. G.; Mezger, Klaus (1 December 1998). "Metamorphism, denudation and sea level in the Archean and cooling of the Earth". Precambrian Research...
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University. Retrieved 24 December 2020. Lidmar-Bergström, Karna (1988). "Denudation surfaces of a shield area in southern Sweden". Geografiska Annaler. 70...
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