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    The sub-Cambrian peneplain is an ancient, extremely flat, erosion surface (peneplain) that has been exhumed and exposed by erosion from under Cambrian strata...
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    In eastern Småland, the Sub-Cambrian peneplain dips gently to the sea. To the West, this part of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain terminates along a north–south...
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    is known as a primary peneplain. An example of a primary peneplain is the Sub-Cambrian peneplain in southern Sweden. The peneplain concept is often juxtaposed...
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    Such erosion would have re-exposed parts of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain. Because the Sub-Cambrian peneplain gently tilts towards the north and west in this...
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    of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain the 300 m a.s.l. peneplain the 200 m a.s.l. peneplain, containing various inselbergs. the South Småland peneplain (175–125...
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    The last major leveling event resulted in the formation of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain in late Neoproterozoic time. Laurentia and Baltica collided in the...
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    Sussex, England) South Småland peneplain (Sweden) Stora Alvaret (Öland, Sweden) Strandflat (Norway) Sub-Cambrian peneplain (Nordic countries) Central Swedish...
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  • the case of Stockholm the plateau surfaces are remnants of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain. Beckholmen Djurgården Helgeandsholmen - Location of the Riksdag...
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    South Småland peneplain bounds with the Sub-Cambrian peneplain uphill across an escarpment. While almost as flat as the Sub-Cambrian peneplain the South Småland...
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    southern Västergötland is made up of northward tilted surfaces of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain making up the flank of the Southern Swedish Dome. The northern and...
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    relief unit known as the Sub-Mesozoic hilly peneplain. Around Morup and Tvååker hilltops are remnants of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain, an ancient erosion surface...
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    peneplain"; in the case of the Fennoscandian Shield, this is the Sub-Cambrian peneplain. The landforms and shallow deposits of northern shields that have...
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  • Geologically the island is an ancient inselberg rising from the Sub-Cambrian peneplain. After its formation in the Precambrian, Blå Jungfrun was buried...
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    uplift of South Norway has elevated the westernmost extension of the sub-Cambrian peneplain which forms part of what is known as the Paleic surface in Norway...
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    study found that the area of Forsmark, whose surface belongs to the Sub-Cambrian peneplain, lost 2 to 3 meters of crystalline bedrock due to erosion during...
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    the Sub-Cambrian peneplain; however, there is some uncerntainty on whether the hilltops are remnants of the peneplain. Rather than Sub-cambrian most...
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  • dissolved nutrients would have drained away very quickly. In the Sub-Cambrian peneplain in Sweden, for example, maximum depth of kaolinitization by Neoproterozoic...
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  • epeirogenic movements since the Cambrian leading to the uplift, tilting and partial erosion of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain. The doming has resulted in the...
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    Norrland terrain is made up of geological faults that disrupt the Sub-Cambrian peneplain found the lowlands. In some locations these faults have been extensively...
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    erosion may have contributed to shaping important landforms like the Sub-Cambrian peneplain that covers much of the Baltic Shield. Hillslope evolution Pediment...
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  • landscapes, the Sub-Cambrian peneplain and plains with residual hills. In southern Sweden the undulating hilly lands are coterminous with the Sub-Mesozoic hilly...
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  • being the Sub-Cambrian peneplain. It is followed by three surfaces, one at 300 m a.s.l., another at 200 m and then the South Småland peneplain. There have...
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    Cambro-Silurian origin. The area of Hardangervidda was once part of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain before it was thrust over by the nappes of the Caledonian orogeny...
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    portion of Stöttingsfjället is interpreted as being a part of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain that have been uplifted by faults. Lidmar-Bergström, Karna; Olvmo...
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    three areas the flat summits of the landscapes are parts of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain. In addition to this there is a large-scale joint valley landscape...
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  • exceeding 50 m. Geologically the plain is a continuation of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain found across much of Fennoscandia. Rudberg, Sten (1960). "Geology...
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  • scale joint valley terrain that dissects uplifted remnants of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain. During the Ice Ages of the past 2-3 million years, the High Coast...
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    near-flat landforms called peneplains. The last major leveling event resulted in the formation of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain in Late Neoproterozoic time...
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    being rapidly exhumed so that by the time of the formation of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain in the Late Neoproterozoic the rocks were at surface. Subsequently...
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    that exist in South Norway. Parts of it are a continuation of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain and Muddus Plains found further east or equivalent to the strandflat...
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