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| the physical action of scraping, rubbing, grinding, or weathering away of rock surfaces and sediments due tot the movement of solid sediments in an erosional system such as a stream or wind |
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| the result of waves dragging on the ocean bottom causing the water in the waves to fall forward as the waves bunch together, rise up, and break against the shore |
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| the processes by whih chemicals, such as oxygen, acids, and water, breakdown rocks and other earth materials, resulting in more stable new minerals(chemicals) like rusting |
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| the deposit of sediment at the mouth or end of a river or stream where it flows into a quiet still body of water. |
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| the carrying away of sediment by wind, water, ice and other agents; the process by which sediments are obtained and transported; the wearing away & lowering of earths urface features |
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| a body of water that forms a long narrow u-shaped glacial valley, often party dammed @ one end by a mound of glacial moraine sediment; example: the finger lakes of new york |
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| a nearly level plain that borders a stream that is subject to flooding unless protected artifically; usually composed of layers of river-deposited sediment |
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| a long narrow channel or furrow on bedrock formed by the gouging and sanding actions of rocks and sediments frozen to the bottom of a glacier; show the direction of a former glacial movement |
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| glacial parallel scratches |
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| parallel cuts in bedrock formed by abrasion of rocks and sediments frozen to the bottom of a glacier (shows directions) |
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| a large mass of naturally formed ice on land that moves down hill due to gravity |
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| any variety of erosion and deposition done directly by gravity; also called gravity erosion |
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| a curve or bend in a stream or river |
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| the mechanical or physical breakdow of rock and other earth materials at or near earths surface into smaller pieces without a change in the mineral or its chemical composition |
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| a pile of low ridge sand, often just above or just below water level, deposited by waves and currents; found near oceanshore or streams/rivers |
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| an erosional process by which blowing sand impacts and abrades rock surface resulting in shaped landscape features and new sediments |
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| particles or materials formed by the weathering and erosion of rocks or organic materials; transported |
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| water flowing through a canal on land |
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| the shape of the body of rock or loose minerals that confine the stream |
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| the rounding, smoothing and size reduction of sediments resulting from the rolling, sliding or bouncing solid sediments along a stream bottom and it erodes the stream bed by impact of solid sediments |
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| small stream or river that flows into a larger stream |
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| the characteristic shape of a valley after is has been eroded by glaciers, especially mountain glaciers, as composed to the v-shaped valleys eroded by streams |
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| the characteristic shape of a valley eroded by a stream or river as compared to a u-shaped valley eroded by glaciers |
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| the area of land drained by one stream, also called a drainage area |
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| the chemical and physical altertations of rock and other earth materials at of near the earths surface, though the action of temperature changes water, chemical agents, atmospheric gases and organic materials |
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