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Planation at Bayanul, Kazakhstan credit: Wikimedia Commons / Ekamaloff |
Planation surfaces are a common feature across the earth. But secular researchers often find these surfaces perplexing because it is not unusual to find them at the top of rugged mountains (figure 1):To finish reading, click on "The uniformitarian puzzle of mountaintop planation surfaces". You may also be interested in a related post, "Escarpments and the Genesis Flood".
“Extensive tracts of low-gradient topography in steep mountain ranges, either forming rangetop plateaus or terraced pediments on range flanks are widely distributed in mountain belts around the world.”Calvet et al.’s survey of these flat-topped mountains establishes their frequency across the globe. Calvet et al. also point out that they are even found atop some of the most active and rapidly eroding mountains on the planet.
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