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relieves iniciales

English translation: initial relief

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Spanish term or phrase:	relieves iniciales
English translation:	initial relief
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21:58 Dec 5, 2011

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Spanish term or phrase: relieves iniciales

Conforman las masa originarias de la corteza, elevadas por fuerzas internas de la tierra...
Initial Reliefs?

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initial relief

Explanation:
Faulting may have created most of the initial relief, that relief then enabling other processes such as mass wasting, and fluvial action to occur.

http://cmex.ihmc.us/exo_strat/Docs/state.html

Thus, over time, the erosion rate tends to adjust to equal the rock-uplift rate. A perturbation analysis of a mountain mass at critical taper suggests that the time constant for this adjustment varies from 105 to >108 yr, depending on initial relief, lithology, and erosion law.

http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/31/7/621.abstract