palimpsest

1. Referring to a kind of drainage in which a modern, anomalous drainage pattern is superimposed upon an older one, clearly indicating different topographic and possibly structural conditions at the time of development. 2. In sedimentology, autochthonous sediment deposits which exhibit some of the attributes of the source sediment.

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