Cryoplanation (or Cryoplanation Terraces) is the alteration of a terrestrial surface by intense frost action that effectively reduces slope steepness and lowers mountain and hill peaks. The term cryoplanation was introduced by Kirk Bryan in 1946 and it is a type of frost weathering that often modifies the landscape into terraces. These terraces ar...
cryoplanation Land erosion that results from processes associated with intensive frost action.
the process through which cryoplanation terraces form.