Pediments are the gently sloping bedrock slopes which dip toward the floor of a basin. A sharp break occurs in the slope where the pediment meets the mountain front. Pediments are caused by the erosion of the mountain front. The eroded material often lies in either a bajada or an alluvial fan below the pediment.
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Alluviated Pediment Burchfield, B. Clark; Foster, Robert; Keller, Edward; Melhorn, Wilton; Brookins, Douglas; Mintz, Leigh; Thurman, Harold.
Physical Geology.
Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., 1982.
