CHAPTER XIII

EARTH FEATURES SHAPED BY RUNNING WATER

The newly incised upland and its sharp salients—The stage of adolescence—The maturely dissected upland—The Hogarthian line of beauty—The final product of river sculpture: the peneplain—The river cross sections of successive stages—The entrenchment of meanders with renewed uplift—The valley of the rejuvenated river—The arrest of stream erosion by the more resistant rocks—The capture of one river by another—Water and wind gaps—Character profiles—Reading references 169