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Erosion Vocabulary

Flora - Forces of Erosion Vocabulary Study Stack

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a glacier that covers a very large area continental glacier
a ridge of till bulldozed ahead and deposited by a glacier moraine
the final step in the erosional process deposition
a type of mass movement in which soil moves slowly down a hill, sometimes causing posts and trees to lean creep
a large, heavy mass of compacted snow and ice that moves slowly downhill because of the force of gravity glacier
a thick deposit of fine, wind-eroded sediments loess
a type of erosion in which loose materials are carried downslope by gravity mass movement
unsorted mixture of rock and soil deposited by a retreating or metling glacier till
the process that removes surfce materials and transports them from one place to another erosion
glacial erosion in which frozen water removes rock fragments and adds them to the bottom of the glacier plucking
a type of erosion caused by natural sandblasting abrasion
one type of sand structure created by deposition dune
mass movement in which one large mass of loose material or rock layers tilts and moves downhill slump
wind erosion that removes loose, fine-grained sediments such as clay or silt and leaves behind coarser material deflation
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