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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Erosion | The moving of weatherd material or sediment from one location to another. |
| Deposition | The laying down or settling or eroded material. |
| Meander | A board c shaped curve stream. |
| Long shure current | A current that flows parellel to the line. |
| Delta | A large deposite of sediment that forms were a stream enters a large body of water. |
| Abrsion | The grinding away of rock or other surface particles carried by wind, water, ice, scrape agants them. |
| Dune | A pile of wind blown in sand. |
| Loess | A crumbly windblown deposite of slit and clay |
| Mass wasting | A downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil due to gravity. |
| Landslide | A rapid downhill movement of soil loos rocks and bolders. |
| Talus | A pile of angular rocks and sediment from rockfall. |
| Glacier | A large mass of ice formed by snow that moves slowly across earths surface. |
| Till | A mixture of varies sizes of sediment that has been deposite by glaceirs. |
| Morain | A mound or ridge of unsorted sediment deposited by glacier. |
| Outwash | Layerd sediment deposited by streams of water that flow from melting glacier. |