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===Scandinavia=== During the Triassic [[peneplain]]s are thought to have formed in what is now Norway and southern Sweden.<ref name=Karna1993>{{cite journal |last1=Lidmar-Bergström |first1=Karna |author-link=Karna Lidmar-Bergström |year=1993 |title=Denudation surfaces and tectonics in the southernmost part of the Baltic Shield |journal=[[Precambrian Research]] |volume=64 |issue=1–4 |pages=337–345 |doi=10.1016/0301-9268(93)90086-h |bibcode=1993PreR...64..337L}}</ref><ref name=Odleivetal2013>{{cite journal |last1=Olesen |first1=Odleiv |last2=Kierulf |first2=Halfdan Pascal |last3=Brönner |first3=Marco |last4=Dalsegg |first4=Einar |last5=Fredin |first5=Ola |last6=Solbakk |first6=Terje |date=2013 |title=Deep weathering, neotectonics and strandflat formation in Nordland, northern Norway |journal=[[Norwegian Journal of Geology]] |volume=93 |pages=189–213}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Japsen |first1=Peter |last2=Green |first2=Paul F |last3=Bonow |first3=Johan M |last4=Erlström |first4=Mikael |year=2016 |title=Episodic burial and exhumation of the southern Baltic Shield: Epeirogenic uplifts during and after break-up of Pangaea |journal=[[Gondwana Research]] |volume=35 |pages=357–77 |bibcode=2016GondR..35..357J |doi=10.1016/j.gr.2015.06.005}}</ref> Remnants of this peneplain can be traced as a tilted [[summit accordance]] in the [[Swedish West Coast]].<ref name=Karna1993/> In northern Norway Triassic peneplains may have been buried in sediments to be then [[exhumation (geology)|re-exposed]] as coastal plains called [[strandflat]]s.<ref name=Odleivetal2013/> Dating of [[illite|illite clay]] from a strandflat of [[Bømlo]], southern Norway, have shown that landscape there became weathered in Late Triassic times ({{circa}} 210 million years ago) with the landscape likely also being shaped during that time.<ref name=Fredinetal2017>{{cite journal |last1=Fredin |first1=Ola |last2=Viola |first2=Giulio |last3=Zwingmann |first3=Horst |last4=Sørlie |first4=Ronald |last5=Brönner |first5=Marco |last6=Lie |first6=Jan-Erik |last7=Margrethe Grandal |first7=Else |last8=Müller |first8=Axel |last9=Margeth |first9=Annina |last10=Vogt |first10=Christoph |last11=Knies |first11=Jochen |display-authors=6 |year=2017 |title=The inheritance of a Mesozoic landscape in western Scandinavia |journal=Nature |volume=8 |page=14879 |doi=10.1038/ncomms14879 |pmid=28452366 |pmc=5477494 |bibcode=2017NatCo...814879F}}</ref>
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