Continental landform - Epeirogenic Realms, Climatic Domination, Plate Tectonics

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The epeirogenic portions of continents (i.e., those that have escaped orogenesis in the past 500 million years) experience denudation in a situation in which the slope factor, if at all tectonic in origin, is regional in expression and so gentle as to exert little influence beyond giving direction to flowing water or ice. It is these regions that variously exhibit veneers of sedimentary rock largely accumulated in epicontinental seas over the past 500 million years or that expose in shield areas the roots of worn-down mountain systems. In the absence of notable tectonism, it is not surprising to find that ...(100 of 6609 words)

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