Truncated upland

A truncated upland, bevelled upland or uplifted peneplain (German:Rumpfgebirge) is the heavily eroded remains of a fold mountain range, often from an early period in earth history. The term Rumpfgebirge ("rump mountains") was first introduced into the literature in 1886 by Ferdinand von Richthofen. The rumps of the former mountain ranges may be found everywhere are in lowland regions of the earth's crust on every continental plate (where they form the so-called basement rocks) and especially outcrop in Central Europe through more recent tectonics.