etchplanation

The process of subsurface weathering or etching which creates etchplains.

Noun

  1. 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,...

Origin

From etch + planation.