Davis's Cycle of Erosion — Youth · Maturity · Old Age UPSC GS-I Geography · Geomorphology (Optional favourite!)

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Youth → Old age

Legend

Youthful summits
Mature slopes
Old-age peneplain
V-gorges / valleys

Drag the time slider — the uplifted block wears down to a peneplain with monadnocks
Source: W.M. Davis (1899) — The Geographical Cycle; Savindra Singh — Geomorphology · Interactive 3D learning model
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