South Småland peneplain (original) (raw)

The South Småland peneplain (Swedish: Sydsmåländska peneplanet) is a large flattish erosion surface, a peneplain, formed during the Tertiary, covering large swathes of southern Småland and nearby areas in Southern Sweden. To the east the South Småland peneplain bounds with the Sub-Cambrian peneplain uphill across an escarpment. While is almost as flat as the Sub-Cambrian peneplain the South Småland peneplain differs in that it contains far more residual hills and that it has never been covered by sedimentary rocks. To the south and west (chiefly Halland and Blekinge) the peneplain transitions into Mesozoic-aged hilly surfaces.