antecedent drainage
antecedent drainage The hypothesis that a stream crossing a geologic structure may be older than that structure. Such a stream is believed to maintain its course across a developing fold or fault. This is a favoured explanation for streams crossing structures in geologically active areas, as do the Arun in the Himalayas, and the Grand Canyon section of the Colorado in the Rockies.
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