Geography Dictionary:

cryopediment

In periglacial environments, a low-angle, concave, piedmont footslope developed by slope retreat, brought about through frost weathering, and the sapping of slopes, and by nivation surfaces. Cryopediments may coalesce to form a cryopediplain.

 
 
 

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