300px, upright=1.35, View of the South Småland peneplain at Store Mosse National Park. Note the residual hill or inselberg in the background.">inselberg.html" ;"title="Store Mosse National Park. Note the residual hill or inselberg">Store Mosse National Park. Note the residual hill or inselberg in the background. The South Småland peneplain () is a large flattish erosion surface, a peneplain, formed during the Tertiary period, Tertiary, covering large swathes of southern

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and nearby areas in Southern Sweden. To the east the South Småland peneplain bounds with the

Sub-Cambrian peneplain The sub-Cambrian peneplain is an ancient, extremely flat, erosion surface (peneplain) that has been exhumed and exposed by erosion from under Cambrian strata over large swathes of Fennoscandia. Eastward, where this peneplain dips below Cambrian an ...

uphill across an

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. While 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

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s. To the south and west (chiefly

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and

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) the peneplain transitions into Mesozoic-aged hilly surfaces. In a 2013 study the surface is described as extending over an altitude range of 100 to 150 meters above sea level, while in a subsequent 2017 study the main surface is said to range from 175 to 125 m a.s.l. with a lower level at 100 m a.s.l. existing near the

border. The South Småland peneplain is the lowest surface in a piedmonttreppen or staircase of erosion surfaces that make up the South Swedish Dome. The level immediately above it is the 200 m peneplain, that is then followed by the 300 m peneplain and the crestal portion of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain. The western part of the peneplain is drained by the river

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while Bolmån drains the southwest. Mörrumsån drains eastern parts of peneplain. It is possible that the Kvärkabäcken and Skäralid streams that traverse the Söderåsen horst in

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are old antecedent rivers that once flowed through the South Småland peneplain. The existence of this plain was first noted by

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in 1913 who termed it ''Smålands urbergslätt''.

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