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Illustrated diagram showing five types of erosion: a river gradually carving a valley, ocean waves cutting back coastal cliffs, wind blowing away topsoil, a glacier moving rocks and boulders, and a landslide displacing earth down a slope. Steep, eroded gullies and ridges of the Calanco badlands in Atri, Abruzzo, Italy, with green fields and distant hills in the background. Beach erosion eroded valley Alaska: Mendenhall Glacier Dust Bowl era: Oklahoma, 1937 Figure 2: Dissected pediment surfaces on the northeastern flank of Mount Graham, southeastern Arizona. The pediments are mantled with early Pleistocene–late Pliocene alluvium. Figure 1: Planation surface cut across dipping Paleozoic sandstone in the James Range, central Australia. Figure 1: A schematic representation of the biogeochemical cycle of carbon. soil erosion
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Illustrated diagram showing five types of erosion: a river gradually carving a valley, ocean waves cutting back coastal cliffs, wind blowing away topsoil, a glacier moving rocks and boulders, and a landslide displacing earth down a slope.
erosion Water, wind, glaciers, and gravity all can change the land through the processes of erosion.

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erosion, removal of surface material from Earth’s crust, primarily soil and rock debris, and the transportation of the eroded materials by natural agencies (such as water or wind) from the point of removal. The broadest application of the term erosion embraces the general wearing down and molding of all landforms on Earth’s surface, including the weathering of rock in its original position, the transport of weathered material, and erosion caused by wind action and fluvial,...

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