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Erosion & Deposition

Vocabulary

TermDefinition
Erosion the moving of weathered material, or sediment, from one location to another
Deposition the laying down or settling of eroded material
Meander a broad, C-shaped curve in a stream
Longshore current a current that flows parallel to the shoreline
Delta a large deposit of sediment that forms where a stream enters a large body of water
Abrasion the grinding away of rock or other surfaces as particles carried by wind, water, or ice scrape against them
Dune a pile of windblown sand
Loess a crumbly, windblown deposit of silt and clay
Mass wasting the downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil due to gravity
Landslide rapid, downhill movement of soil, loose rocks, and boulders
Talus a pile of angular rocks and sediment from a rockfall
Glacier a large mass of ice, formed by snow accumulation on land, that moves slowly across the Earth's surface
Till a mixture of various sizes of sediment that has been deposited by a glacier
Moraine a mound or ridge of unsorted sediment deposited by a glacier
Outwash layered sediment deposited by streams of water that flow from a melting glacier
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