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The Pediment Landform: Some Current Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Lester King
Lester King
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(University of Natal, Durban, South Africa)
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Abstract

The pediment is a widespread and fundamental landform adapted to and moulded by sheet-flow of surface water. The usually abrupt transition from hillslopes to pediments corresponds to a change in surface water flow from linear- to sheet-flow. A cut-rock surface is an essential feature, and where this is buried beneath a detrital mantle some climatic change is to be suspected.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 86 , Issue 4 , August 1949 , pp. 245 - 250
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1949

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