etchplanation
nounEtymology From etch + planation.
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Geography, Geology, Geomorphology, Natural sciences The process of subsurface weathering or etching which creates etchplains.
- Deep weathering and etchplanation can occur in the humid sub-tropics (Tricart, 1972) and a humid sub-tropical Britain in Tertiary times is possible.1985, Richard Hugh Johnson, The Geomorphology of North-west England, page 52: