Shirin Schooley

Schooley peneplain wani peneplain ne a gabashin Appalachians wanda ya kai daga jihar New Jersey ta Amurka zuwa Pine Mountain a Kentucky .  Yankin yana da suna daga Dutsen Schooley inda za'a iya jin dadin shi azaman shimfiɗa. Shekarar da aka kafa peneplain da girmansa sun kasance batutuwan muhawara mai tsawo. Wasu masana kimiyyar ƙasa da masu ilimin ƙasa na ƙarni na 20 sun yi la'akari da cewa peneplain ya nutse gabas a ƙarƙashin Atlantic Plain a matsayin rashin daidaituwa da ke ƙarƙashin turɓaya na Cretaceous. Sakamakon haka, sun nuna farkon Cretaceous ko zamanin Jurassic. Marubutan daban-daban, ciki har da Douglas Wilson Johnson, duk da haka sun ki amincewa da daidaito na peneplain zuwa rashin daidaituwa. Tun daga shekarun 2000, an gabatar da Oligocene zuwa tsakiyar Miocene don peneplain. Dangane da wannan ra'ayi na ƙarshe, haɓakawa da rarraba peneplain ya fara ne a ƙarshen Miocene.

Schooley peneplain yana ɗaya daga cikin manyan peneplains guda huɗu da aka gano a cikin Appalachians, sauran su ne Fall Zone, Harrisburg da Sommerville . 

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