Summit accordance
Appearance
A summit accordance exists when hill and mountaintops tops, and eventually also plateaux, have such disposition that they form a geometric plane that may be either horizontal or tilted. Summit accordances can be the vestiges of former continuous erosion surfaces that were eroded.[1] Other proposed explanations include:[2]
- the possibility that erosion is more effective at height tearing down mountains that stands out
- that isostacy regulates the height of individual mountain masses meaning that small mountains might be uplifted and large mountains dragged down
- that landscape dissection by uniformly spaced streams eventually reach a state in which summits reach similar heights
- that summit accordance is derivative of structural surfaces exposed by erosion
See also
References
- ^ Lidmar-Bergström, Karna. "Toppkonstans". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Cydonia Development. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
- ^
Beckinsale, Robert P.; Chorley, Richard J. (2003) [1991]. "Chapter Seven: American Polycyclic Geomorphology". The History of the Study of Landforms. Vol. Volume Three. Taylor & Francis e-Library. pp. 235–236.
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