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- Preferred Labelskos:prefLabel
pediment setting
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- http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/eventenvironment/pediment_setting ↗Go to the persistent identifier link
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- Event Environment
| Preferred Labelskos:prefLabel | pediment setting |
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| Definitionskos:definition | A gently sloping erosional surface developed at the foot of a receding hill or mountain slope. The surface may be essentially bare, exposing earth material that extends beneath adjacent uplands, or it may be thinly mantled with alluvium and colluvium, ultimately in transit from upland front to basin or valley lowland. In hill-foot slope terrain the mantle is designated \pedisediment.\ The term has been used in several geomorphic contexts: Pediments may be classed with respect to (a) landscape positions, for example, intermontane-basin piedmont or valley-border footslope surfaces (respectively, apron and terrace pediments (Cooke and Warren, 1973)), (b) type of material eroded, bedrock or regolith, or (c) combinations of the above. Compare - Piedmont slope.. |
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http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/EventEnvironmentValue/pedimentSetting
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| Broaderbroader |
piedmont slope system setting
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| See AlsoseeAlso | Event Environment |
| Is Defined ByisDefinedBy | Event Environment |