The study of palaeosurfaces is an area where the geological and geomorphological sciences can combine expertise to provide a more holistic treatment of the processes that have helped shape the face of the Earth. This volume is timely because geologists, ...

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According to the major conventional models of landscape evolution there ought to be no land surfaces older than Oligocene, save some that have been exhumed. In reality, substantial areas of the Australian continent (as well as other parts of ...

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Remnants of elevated palaeosurfaces in the Scottish Highlands, proposed in numerous earlier studies, have been re-evaluated using digital elevation data from the Ordnance Survey. Histograms of elevation frequency, for areas 5, 10 and 20 km², ...

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This paper describes a site on the Carboniferous limestone of County Galway, Ireland, where a complex of gorges, cave passages and shallow surface depressions is filled with organic silt and clay overlain by white quartz sand. The dating of the ...

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Geochemical and statistical analyses (principle components and Cluster analysis) are used to study changes in element concentration in a range of chemically complex palaeosols from northeast Ireland produced under humid tropical conditions. ...

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Collection and palynological analysis of intratrappean boles, mudstones, sands, conglomerates and coals from the Skye lava field has allowed the reconstruction of geomorphological features and vegetation distribution on five palaeosurfaces. These ...

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Saprolite remnants from different palaeosurfaces in southern Sweden have been analysed by XRD and SEM analyses. They represent two clearly different types. The first is a clay- and silt-rich saprolite with a kaolinite-dominated clay mineral ...

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Remnants of deeply-weathered rock have been recorded in many regions which were ice-covered during the Pleistocene. They generally belong to shields and Palaeozoic massifs. This paper presents an example from the French Alps which testifies to the ...

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The formation of blockfields is a process usually attributed to weathering. In mountain areas this is generally assumed to be mechanical weathering (frost shattering). Evidence from two high plateaus [900 and 1350 m above sea level (a.s.l.)] in ...

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The geomorphological analysis of regional Neogene erosion surfaces is of great geological interest as it helps in the reconstruction of the environmental evolution of continental areas. Moreover, the structural analysis of their deformation is a ...

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In central Spain three main weathering phases are found which can be put in a chronological sequence with tectonic and sedimentation phases. Weathering intensity, as recorded by micromorphological analysis, has plainly decreased during the course ...

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On the southwest border of the Duero Basin the Hercynian basement of the Iberian Peninsula is fossilized by a siderolithic sedimentary cover whose thickness increases progressively eastward. Two different palaeoweathering mantles have developed in ...

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This paper presents the evidence of the major part played by deep weathering accompanied, or followed, by stripping of a weathering mantle in the formation of Tertiary surfaces in the Sudetes. It also highlights the complicated nature of the ...

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Two types of Neogene palaeosurfaces occur in the Central Slovakia Volcanic Area, these being volcanic and planational in origin. The volcanic palaeosurfaces are currently represented as topographic remnants which were originally created as a ...

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Two genetically distinct lateritized palaeosurfaces of different ages are recognized in the southwest Deccan Traps region of Western India using a combination of geochemical, topographical, and satellite image data. The Deccan Traps were erupted ...

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A synthesis of new information from extensive field reconnaissance and systematic map analysis from southern India is presented. A new interpretation for landscape development in the Karnataka upland region is given. Three phases of ...

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Deccan intravolcanic bole horizons represent weathering products formed during major hiatuses of a major volcanic episode. In these quiescent periods weathering processes pervasively altered the newly formed volcanic landscape and subsequent flows ...

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Palaeosurfaces are often characterized by distinctive surficial material compositions; for example, iron oxide in lateritic surfaces in India or calcium carbonate in calcreted surfaces in Africa. The chemical constituents of interest often play a ...

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A series of lateritized footslope benches are observed on the isolated hill masses which rise to 500 m above the interior plain of Sierra Leone. Field observations and chemical analyses of samples indicate that each bench has a characteristic ...

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Low relief palaeosurfaces are widely preserved in the Cordillera Oríental of the Bolivian Andes at altitudes between 2000 m and 4000 m in a region up to 100 km wide and 600 km long. Remnants of these nearly horizontal or gently undulating erosion ...