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Figure 4.8
Great escarpments on passive margins.
Source:
Adapted from Summerfield (1991, 86)
Great
Escarpment
Western
Ghats
Deccan
Plateau
Shoulder uplift
Downwearing
Denudation
Sediment
load
Backwearing
Denudation
Sea
level
Flexural upwarp
Figure 4.9
Conceptual model of passive margin denudation and shoulder uplift by flexural rebound based on the
Western Ghats, India.
Source:
Adapted from Gunnell and Fleitout (2000)
