The marked increase in the rate of erosion that takes place when a land mass is relatively elevated. Streams respond by incision, with the development of terraces and knick points, and finally a polycyclic landscape emerges.
Geography
The renewed vigour of a once active process. The term is generally applied to streams and rivers which regain energy due to the uplift of land through isostasy or by a fall in the base level (Schlunegger and Schneider (2005) Geomorph. 69, 1–4). Rejuvenation may also apply to tectonic movements (Valdiya (1993) Current Sci. 64).