1. Pertaining to a surface, landscape, or feature (such as a mountain, peneplain, or fault scarp) that has been restored by exhumation to its previous status in the existing relief. Also known as exhumed. 2. Pertaining to a stream that follows an earlier drainage system after a period of brief submergence has slightly masked the old course by a thin film of sediments. Also known a palingene-tic.
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