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    processes that form planation surfaces are labelled collectively planation and are exogenic (chiefly erosion). Planation surfaces are planated regardless...
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    intersection of two coordinate surfaces is a coordinate curve. In the Cartesian coordinate system we may speak of coordinate planes. Similarly, coordinate hypersurfaces...
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    flat erosion surfaces receive the names of peneplain, paleoplain, planation surface or pediplain. An example of erosion surface is road surface erosion which...
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    The last is the case of planation surfaces that may be peneplains or not, while some peneplains are not planation surfaces. In their 2013 work Green...
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    Surface piercings are piercings that are found on flat parts of the body, giving a double-pierced look that sits flat against the skin. A surface bar...
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    A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface. Some rotary power planers are motorized power...
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  • Curvature (redirect from Surface curvature)
    deviates from being a straight line or by which a surface deviates from being a plane. If a curve or surface is contained in a larger space, curvature can...
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  • Peneplain – Low-relief plain formed by protracted erosion Planation surface – Large-scale land surface that is almost flat Potrero – Long mesa that at one end...
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  • flat, 2-dimensional surface Plane (mathematics), generalizations of a geometrical plane Plane or planes may also refer to: Plane (tree) or Platanus, wetland...
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    original on 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2014-01-26. Migoń, Piotr (2004). "Planation surface". In Goudie, A.S. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Geomorphology. pp. 788–792...
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    but the Möbius strip, Klein bottle and real projective plane do not. Every compact Riemann surface is a complex algebraic curve by Chow's theorem and the...
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    Jointer (redirect from Surface planer)
    jointer or in some configurations, a jointer-planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a planer or surface planer, and sometimes also as a buzzer or flat...
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    An inclined plane, also known as a ramp, is a flat supporting surface tilted at an angle from the vertical direction, with one end higher than the other...
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    Pediplain (category Planation surfaces)
    subsurface weathering Paleosurface – Surface made by erosion of considerable antiquity Planation surface – Large-scale land surface that is almost flat King himself...
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    is a feature in structural geology where a circular part of the Earth's surface has been pushed upward, tilting the pre-existing layers of earth away from...
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    by the early Paleozoic a planation surface extended across Ethiopia. Sedimentary rocks of Ordovician age cover this surface making it largely an unconformity...
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    In Euclidean geometry, a plane is a flat two-dimensional surface that extends indefinitely. Euclidean planes often arise as subspaces of three-dimensional...
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  • lay, surface roughness, and waviness. It comprises the small, local deviations of a surface from the perfectly flat ideal (a true plane). Surface texture...
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    three-dimensional space, a surface normal, or simply normal, to a surface at point P is a vector perpendicular to the tangent plane of the surface at P. The vector...
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    contain four discernible planation surfaces, the oldest one being formed not later than in the Ordovician Period. The youngest surface formed in the Cenozoic...
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    upper planation surface at a height of 2000 to 3000 meter above sea level. Later uplift, during the Pliocene, formed a lower planation surface at 500...
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    In geometry, Boy's surface is an immersion of the real projective plane in three-dimensional space. It was discovered in 1901 by the German mathematician...
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    upper planation surface at a height of 2000 to 3000 meter above sea level. Later uplift, during the Pliocene, formed a lower planation surface at 500...
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    formed by the radio waves reflecting from a conductive surface called a ground plane, such as the surface of the earth. It is used as a geometrical technique...
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    more or less well-defined bedding surfaces". A bedding surface or bedding plane is respectively a curved surface or plane that visibly separates each successive...
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    implicit surface is a surface in Euclidean space defined by an equation F ( x , y , z ) = 0. {\displaystyle F(x,y,z)=0.} An implicit surface is the set...
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  • (physics), the event where an object collides with and bounces against a plane surface Mr. Bounce, a character from the Mr. Men series of children's books...
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    such extent that by the Ordovician epoch it had been leveled to a planation surface in Ethiopia. The Cenozoic East African Rift System mostly evolved...
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  • 33 (2): 163–182. doi:10.1177/0309133309338138. S2CID 128915651. "Planation surface". Encyclopædia Britannica. Fairbridge, Rhodes W.; Finkl Jr., Charles...
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  • In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional space or flat surface that extends indefinitely. A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero...
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