Circumdenudation

Translation of "circumdenudation" into Russian

Noun

circumdenudation

circumdenudations pl

циркденудация

The process of circumdenudation can significantly alter the landscape over time.

Процесс циркденудации может значительно изменить ландшафт со временем.

Noun

The process of erosion or denudation that results in the exposure of underlying rock formations.

The geologist explained that circumdenudation had revealed the ancient rock layers in the valley.

The progressive lowering of a land surface caused by erosion acting outward from a central high area such as a mountain or plateau.

Over millions of years, circumdenudation of the plateau wore it down to a gently rolling plain.