Pediplen
Sign in to savethumb|View of a scarpment and pediment in Namibia. The somewhat flat area in the foreground is an incipient pediplain. thumb|Cattle on an Oudalan pediplain, between Gorom and Oursi, Burkina Faso.
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thumb|View of a scarpment and pediment in Namibia. The somewhat flat area in the foreground is an incipient pediplain. thumb|Cattle on an Oudalan pediplain, between Gorom and Oursi, Burkina Faso.
In geology and geomorphology a pediplain (from the Latin pes, genitive case pedis, meaning "foot") is an extensive plain formed by the coalescence of pediments. The processes through which pediplains forms is known as pediplanation. The concepts of pediplain and pediplanation were first developed by geologist Lester Charles King in his 1942 book South African Scenery. The concept gained notoriety as it was juxtaposed to peneplanation.
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