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Erosion

Geology

The action of surface processes, water flow or wind chief among them, that removes soil, rock or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and transports it to another location where it is deposited. Over geologic time it is what wears mountains down to plains. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Timescale
Continuous, visible effects from single storms to millions of years for mountain ranges 1
Driving Force
Erosion is driven by rainfall, river flow, coastal wave action, glacial plucking and abrasion, flooding, wind and mass movement. 1
Resulting Feature
Eroded material is carried away and then deposited at a new location once the transporting agent loses energy. 1
Significance
Water and wind erosion together drive about 84 percent of global land degradation, making erosion one of the most significant environmental problems worldwide. 1
Driving Force
Driving Force (category)
Wind / Aeolian 1
Driving Force (category)
Glacial / Ice 1
Timescale
Timescale (category)
Years to Decades 1
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It differs from other erosion in that the debris is not entrained in a moving medium.

Source Mass Wasting (Wikipedia)

Erosion strips and transports the material sedimentation later lays down.

Source Sedimentation (Wikipedia)

Causes

Source Brimham Rocks (Wikipedia)

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Source Wikidata: Brixental

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Source Wikidata: Brown Willy

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Source Wikidata: Bulkley Valley

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Source Wikidata: Cades Cove

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Source Wikidata: Cadore

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Source Wikidata: Caenlochan

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Source Wikidata: Cajón del Maipo

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Source Wikidata: Callaghan Valley

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Source Wikidata: Callejón de Huaylas

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Source Wikidata: Canaan Valley
Source Wikipedia: Canyon

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Source Wikidata: Capay Valley

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Source Wikidata: Capertee Valley

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Source Wikidata: Carnia

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Source Wikidata: Cascadia Channel

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Source Wikidata: Casentino

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Source Wikidata: Castle Crags

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Source Wikidata: Central Lowlands

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Source Wikidata: Central Sava Valley

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Source Wikidata: Champlain Valley

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Source Wikidata: Chao Valley

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Source Wikidata: Chapursan

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Source Wikidata: Chateauguay Valley

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Source Wikidata: Chatra Gorge

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Source Wikidata: Cheddar Gorge

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Source Wikidata: Cheshire Plain
Source Chew Valley (Wikipedia)

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Source Wikidata: Chicama Valley

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Source Wikidata: Chicamocha Canyon

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Source Wikidata: Chilean Central Valley

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Source Wikidata: Chili Gulch

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Source Wikidata: Chilton Chine

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Source Wikidata: China Danxia

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Source Wikidata: Chippewa Valley

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Source Wikidata: Chitwan Valley

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Source Wikidata: Chiusella Valley

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Source Wikidata: Chorbat Valley

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Source Wikidata: Chumbi Valley

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Source Wikidata: Chuy Valley

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Source Wikidata: City of Rocks
Source Ciudad Encantada (Wikipedia)
Source Cliff (Wikipedia)
Source Cliff-former (Wikipedia)

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Source Wikidata: Clinker Gulch

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Source Wikidata: Coachella Valley

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Source Wikidata: Cochamo Valley

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1. Erosion (Wikipedia)
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  • Physical processes
    Agents of erosion include rainfall; bedrock wear in rivers; coastal erosion by the sea and waves; glacial plucking, abrasion, and scour; areal flooding; wind abrasion; groundwater processes; and mass movement processes.
  • Rivers and streams
    The transport of eroded materials from their original location is followed by deposition, which is arrival and emplacement of material at a new location.
  • Consequences of human-made soil erosion
    Water and wind erosion are the two primary causes of land degradation; combined, they are responsible for about 84% of the global extent of degraded land, making excessive erosion one of the most significant environmental problems worldwide.
  • Introduction, opening sentence
    Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
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Baruungoyot Formation (Wikipedia)
Causes: Baruungoyot Formation, Article text
Quote, Causes: Baruungoyot Formation, Article text
The Baruungoyot Formation preserves an environment of sand dunes, created from wind-eroded rocks (aeolian dunes).
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Vedauwoo (Wikipedia)
Causes: Vedauwoo, Article text
Quote, Causes: Vedauwoo, Article text
Younger layers of rock and sediment have been progressively eroded in process that continues to this day.
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El Peñón de Guatapé (Wikipedia)
Causes: El Peñón de Guatapé, Article text
Quote, Causes: El Peñón de Guatapé, Article text
The landform is a granitic rock remnant that has resisted weathering and erosion, likely due to being less fractured than the surrounding bedrock.
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Estuary (Wikipedia)
Causes: Estuary, Article text
Quote, Causes: Estuary, Article text
Most existing estuaries originated during the Holocene epoch with the flooding of river-eroded or glacially scoured valleys when the sea level began to rise about 10,000-12,000 years ago.
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Cuesta (Wikipedia)
Causes: Cuesta, Article text
Quote, Causes: Cuesta, Article text
Where erosion has exposed the frontslope of this, a steep slope or escarpment occurs.
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Redwall Limestone (Wikipedia)
Causes: Redwall Limestone, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Redwall Limestone, Lead paragraph
The Redwall Limestone is an erosion-resistant, Mississippian age, cliff-forming geological formation that forms prominent, red-stained cliffs in the Grand Canyon. these cliffs range in height from 150 m (490 ft) to 244 m (801 ft)
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Slot canyon (Wikipedia)
Causes: Slot canyon, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Slot canyon, Lead paragraph
A slot canyon is a long, narrow channel or drainageway with sheer rock walls that are typically eroded into either sandstone or other sedimentary rock
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Badlands (Wikipedia)
Causes: Badlands, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Badlands, Lead paragraph
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded
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Ravine (Wikipedia)
Causes: Ravine, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Ravine, Lead paragraph
A ravine is a landform that is narrower than a canyon and is often the product of streambank erosion
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Peneplain (Wikipedia)
Causes: Peneplain, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Peneplain, Lead paragraph
In geomorphology and geology, a peneplain is a low-relief plain formed by protracted erosion
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Wave-cut platform (Wikipedia)
Causes: Wave-cut platform, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Wave-cut platform, Lead paragraph
A wave-cut platform, shore platform, coastal bench, or wave-cut cliff is the narrow flat area often found at the base of a sea cliff or along the shoreline of a lake, bay, or sea that was created by erosion
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Flatiron (geomorphology) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Flatiron (geomorphology), Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Flatiron (geomorphology), Lead paragraph
Traditionally in geomorphology, a flatiron is a steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer strata
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Pothole (landform) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Pothole (landform), Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Pothole (landform), Lead paragraph
In Earth science, a pothole is a smooth, bowl-shaped or cylindrical hollow, generally deeper than wide, found carved into the rocky bed of a watercourse
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Strandflat (Wikipedia)
Causes: Strandflat, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Strandflat, Lead paragraph
Strandflat (Norwegian: strandflate) is a landform typical of the Norwegian coast consisting of a flattish erosion surface on the coast and near-coast seabed
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Exhumed river channel (Wikipedia)
Causes: Exhumed river channel, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Exhumed river channel, Lead paragraph
An exhumed river channel is a ridge of sandstone that remains when the softer flood plain mudstone is eroded away
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Cyclopean stairs (Wikipedia)
Causes: Cyclopean stairs, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Cyclopean stairs, Lead paragraph
Cyclopean stairs form as a result of glacial erosion
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Paleosurface (Wikipedia)
Causes: Paleosurface, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Paleosurface, Lead paragraph
In geology and geomorphology a paleosurface is a surface made by erosion of considerable antiquity
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Witness hill (Wikipedia)
Causes: Witness hill, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Witness hill, Lead paragraph
A witness hill is a type of landform created from the erosion of the earth
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Sastrugi (Wikipedia)
Causes: Sastrugi, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Sastrugi, Lead paragraph
Sastrugi, or zastrugi, are features formed by the erosion of snow by wind
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Lavaka (Wikipedia)
Causes: Lavaka, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Lavaka, Lead paragraph
Lavaka (Malagasy pronunciation: [ˈlavakə̥]), the Malagasy word for "hole", usually found on the side of a hill, is a type of erosional feature common in Madagascar
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Alcove (landform) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Alcove (landform), Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Alcove (landform), Lead paragraph
Alcove is the geographical and geological term for a steep-sided hollow in the side of an exposed rock face or cliff of a homogeneous rock type, that was water eroded
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Fin (geology) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Fin (geology), Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Fin (geology), Lead paragraph
A fin is a geological formation that is a narrow, residual wall of hard sedimentary rock that remains standing after surrounding rock has been eroded away along parallel joints or fractures
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Escarpment (Wikipedia)
Causes: Escarpment, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Escarpment, Lead paragraph
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations
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Stream head cut (Wikipedia)
Causes: Stream Head Cut, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Stream Head Cut, Lead paragraph
In geomorphology, a stream head cut or simply head cut (alternately headcut) is an erosional feature of some intermittent and perennial streams
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Cliff-former (Wikipedia)
Causes: Cliff-former, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Cliff-former, Lead paragraph
A cliff-former is a geological unit of bedrock that is more resistant to erosion than overlying or underlying strata and consequently produces outcrops with high slope angles
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Slope-former (Wikipedia)
Causes: Slope-former, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Slope-former, Lead paragraph
A slope-former is a unit of bedrock which is less resistant to erosion than overlying or underlying units and consequently results in outcrops with low relative slope angles
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Sub-Cambrian peneplain (Wikipedia)
Causes: Sub-Cambrian Peneplain, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Sub-Cambrian Peneplain, Lead paragraph
The sub-Cambrian peneplain is an ancient, extremely flat, erosion surface (peneplain) that has been exhumed and exposed by erosion from under Cambrian strata over large swathes of Fennoscandia
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Lalu (Thailand) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Lalu (Thailand), Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Lalu (Thailand), Lead paragraph
Lalu (Thai: ละลุ, pronounced [lā.lúʔ]) is a natural rock formations caused by erosion
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Truncated spur (Wikipedia)
  • Causes: Truncated Spur, Lead paragraph
    A truncated spur is a spur, which is a ridge that descends towards a valley floor or coastline from a higher elevation, that ends in an inverted-V face and was produced by the erosional truncation of the spur by the action of either streams, waves, or glaciers
  • Causes: Faceted Spur, Lead sentence
    A truncated spur is a spur, which is a ridge that descends towards a valley floor or coastline from a higher elevation, that ends in an inverted-V face and was produced by the erosional truncation of the spur by the action of either streams, waves, or glaciers.
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Tsingy Rouge (Wikipedia)
Causes: Tsingy Rouge, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Tsingy Rouge, Lead paragraph
The Tsingy Rouge (Red Tsingy) is a stone formation of red laterite formed by erosion of the Irodo River in the Diana Region in northern Madagascar
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Gulch (Wikipedia)
Causes: Gulch, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Gulch, Lead paragraph
A gulch is a deep V-shaped valley formed by erosion
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Anchor Church (Wikipedia)
Causes: Anchor Church, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Anchor Church, Lead paragraph
The sandstone outcrop once formed part of the banks of the River Trent and the caves were formed by the action of the river on the rock
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Brimham Rocks (Wikipedia)
Causes: Brimham Rocks, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Brimham Rocks, Lead paragraph
The site is known for its water- and weather-eroded rocks, which were formed over 325 million years ago and have assumed fantastic shapes
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Dip slope (Wikipedia)
Causes: Dip slope, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Dip slope, Lead paragraph
Dip slopes are the result of the differential erosion of strata of varying resistance to erosion that are dipping uniformly in one direction
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Gap (landform) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Gap (landform), Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Gap (landform), Lead paragraph
Geomorphologically, a gap is most often carved by water erosion from a freshet, stream or a river
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Geo (landform) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Geo (landform), Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Geo (landform), Lead paragraph
They are created by the wave driven erosion of cliffs along faults and bedding planes in the rock
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Gully (Wikipedia)
Causes: Gully, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Gully, Lead paragraph
A gully is a landform created by running water, mass movement, or both, which erodes soil to a sharp angle, typically on a hillside or in river floodplains or terraces
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Valle de la Luna (Chile) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Valle de la Luna (Chile), Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Valle de la Luna (Chile), Lead paragraph
It has various stone and sand formations which have been carved by wind and water
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Valle Mesolcina (Wikipedia)
Causes: Valle Mesolcina, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Valle Mesolcina, Lead paragraph
It is the valley formed by the river Moesa
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Yardang (Wikipedia)
Causes: Yardang, Lead paragraph
Quote, Causes: Yardang, Lead paragraph
Yardangs are formed by wind erosion, typically of an originally flat surface formed from areas of harder and softer material
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Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (Wikipedia)
Causes: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Geologically, they are the oldest in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, shaped by volcanic activity and erosion over millions of years.
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Makhtesh Ramon (Wikipedia)
Causes: Makhtesh Ramon, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Makhtesh Ramon, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Located some 85 km south of Beersheba, the landform is the world's largest "erosion cirque" (steephead valley or box canyon).
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Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness (Wikipedia)
Causes: Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Established in 1984, the Wilderness is a desolate area of steeply eroded badlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, except three parcels of private Navajo land within its boundaries.
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Zabriskie Point (Wikipedia)
Causes: Zabriskie Point, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Zabriskie Point, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Zabriskie Point () is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, noted for its erosional landscape.
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Promontory (Wikipedia)
Causes: Promontory, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Promontory, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Most promontories either are formed from a hard ridge of rock that has resisted the erosive forces that have removed the softer rock to the sides of it, or are the high ground that remains between two river valleys where they form a confluence.
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Cliff (Wikipedia)
Causes: Cliff, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Cliff, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity.
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Natural arch (Wikipedia)
Causes: Natural arch, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Natural arch, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Natural arches commonly form where inland cliffs, coastal cliffs, fins or stacks are subject to erosion from the sea, rivers or weathering (subaerial processes).
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Sea cave (Wikipedia)
Causes: Sea Cave, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Sea Cave, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
A sea cave or littoral cave is a type of cave formed primarily by the wave action of the sea.
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Planation surface (Wikipedia)
Causes: Planation surface, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Planation surface, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
The processes that form planation surfaces are labelled collectively planation and are exogenic (chiefly erosion).
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Paha (landform) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Paha (landform), Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Paha (landform), Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
In Iowa, paha are prominent hills that are oriented from northwest to southeast, formed during the period of mass erosion that developed the Iowan surface, and they are considered erosional remnants since they often preserve buried soils.
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Wikipedia: Stack (geology)
WikipediaCauses: Sea Stack, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Sea Stack, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
A stack or sea stack is a coastal geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion.
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Babele (Wikipedia)
Causes: Babele, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Babele, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
The name comes from some mushroom shaped rock formations, the result of erosion and varying hardness of the rock layers.
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Pūtangirua Pinnacles (Wikipedia)
Causes: Putangirua Pinnacles, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Putangirua Pinnacles, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
The Pūtangirua Pinnacles (also known colloquially simply as The Pinnacles) are a geological formation and one of New Zealand's best examples of badlands erosion.
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Valle de la Luna, Bolivia (Wikipedia)
Causes: Valle de la Luna (Bolivia), Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Valle de la Luna (Bolivia), Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Because the soil is composed primarily of clay and sandstone rather than rock, the ground is not solid, and erosion has worn away the upper part of the mountain.
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Ventifact (Wikipedia)
Causes: Ventifact, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Ventifact, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
A ventifact (also wind-faceted stone, windkanter) is a rock that has been abraded, pitted, etched, grooved, or polished by wind-driven sand or ice crystals.
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Phae Mueang Phi (Wikipedia)
Causes: Phae Mueang Phi, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Phae Mueang Phi, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Named after the local ghosts (ผี), the zone of Phae Mueang Phi includes mushroom rocks and distinctive pillars shaped by natural erosive action.
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Perry Sandhills (Wikipedia)
Causes: Perry Sandhills, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Perry Sandhills, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
The sandhills cover an area of approximately 160 hectares (400 acres), and have been formed over the past 40,000 years by wind erosion.
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Iles de la Madeleine, Senegal (Wikipedia)
Causes: Iles de la Madeleine (Senegal), Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Iles de la Madeleine (Senegal), Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
The cliffs are steep, and had been carved by the sea over millions of years. Îles de la Madeleine National Park (French: Parc national des Îles de la Madeleine) is one of the smallest national parks in the world.
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Blowout (geomorphology) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Blowout (geomorphology), Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Blowout (geomorphology), Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Blowouts are sandy depressions in a sand dune ecosystem (psammosere) caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
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Ciudad Encantada (Wikipedia)
Causes: Ciudad Encantada, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Ciudad Encantada, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
The Ciudad Encantada (English: Enchanted City) is a geological site near the city of Cuenca, in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, in which the erosive forces of weather and the waters of the nearby Júcar river have formed rocks into distinctive and memorable shapes.
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Meander (Wikipedia)
Causes: Meander, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Meander, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank (cut bank or river cliff) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex bank which is typically a point bar.
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Mountain (Wikipedia)
Causes: Mountain, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Quote, Causes: Mountain, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
Mountains are formed through tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years.
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The Twelve Apostles (Victoria) (Wikipedia)
Causes: Twelve Apostles (Victoria), Article text
Quote, Causes: Twelve Apostles (Victoria), Article text
The Twelve Apostles were formed by erosion.
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Arch of Cabo San Lucas (Wikipedia)
Causes: Arch of Cabo San Lucas, Article text
Quote, Causes: Arch of Cabo San Lucas, Article text
The arch is three stories tall and was formed from natural erosion.
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Wikipedia: Inselberg
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An inselberg results when a body of rock resistant to erosion, such as granite, occurring within a body of softer rocks, is exposed by differential erosion and lowering of the surrounding landscape.
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Plunge pool (Wikipedia)
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It is created by the erosional forces of cascading water on the rocks at the formation's base where the water impacts.
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Epigenetic valley (Wikipedia)
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In geology and geomorphology, a valley created by erosion and with little or no sympathy for bedrock structure is labelled an epigenetic valley.
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Devils Garden (Garfield County, Utah) (Wikipedia)
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The formations in the Devils Garden were created, and continue to be shaped, by various weathering and erosional processes.
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Chew Valley (Wikipedia)
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It formed as a result of desert erosion and weathering of the scarp slopes.
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Kamenice Gorge (Wikipedia)
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Wind and water erosion then created unique rock formations.
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Al Naslaa (Wikipedia)
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The overall shape of the rock is due to wind erosion and the chemical weathering made possible by the moist conditions in the protected underside of the rock.
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Bench (geology) (Wikipedia)
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First, the differential erosion of rocks or sediments of varying hardness and resistance to erosion can create benches.
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Dissected plateau (Wikipedia)
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A dissected plateau is a plateau area that has been severely eroded, and the relief is sharp.
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Wikipedia: Canyon
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The processes of weathering and erosion will form canyons when the river's headwaters and estuary are at significantly different elevations, particularly through regions where softer rock layers are intermingled with harder layers more resistant to weathering.
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Barenschutzklamm (Wikipedia)
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It was carved by the Mixnitzbach ("Mixnitz Creek"), which originates at 1,416 metres (4,646 ft) above the Adriatic, passes through a small lake at the Teichalm ("Pond Alm") and then passes through the gorge as a series of waterfalls.
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Submarine canyon (Wikipedia)
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The formation of submarine canyons is believed to occur as the result of at least two main process: 1) erosion by turbidity current erosion; and 2) slumping and mass wasting of the continental slope.
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Stone town of Kuklica (Wikipedia)
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Differences in the erodibility of the volcanic rocks of the area are the main factor for the pillars creation.
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Đavolja Varoš (Wikipedia)
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These formations were created by strong erosion of the soil that was scene of intense volcanic activity millions of years ago.
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Borsu surface (Wikipedia)
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The Borsu surface (Swedish: Borsuytan) is an erosion surface found as valley benches in the northern Scandinavian Mountains.
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Sub-Paleogene surface (Wikipedia)
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The Sub-Paleogene surface is an ancient erosion surface that exists in southern England.
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Paleic surface (Wikipedia)
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The paleic surface or palaeic surface (Norwegian: paleiske overflaten, from Ancient Greek palaios 'old') is an erosion surface of gentle slopes that exist in South Norway.
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Klippe (Wikipedia)
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The klippe is the remnant portion of a nappe after erosion has removed connecting portions of the nappe.
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Badlands National Park (Wikipedia)
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The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km2) of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles, along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States.
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Headland (Wikipedia)
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Bays form when weak (less resistant) rocks (such as sands and clays) are eroded, leaving bands of stronger (more resistant) rocks (such as chalk, limestone, and granite) forming a headland, or peninsula.
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Mushroom rock (Wikipedia)
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The rocks are deformed in a number of different ways: by erosion and weathering, glacial action, or from a sudden disturbance.
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Homoclinal ridge (Wikipedia)
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The surface of hard, erosion-resistant rock strata forms the caprock of the backslope (dip-slope) of the homoclinal ridges from which erosion has preferentially stripped any weaker strata.
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Reef (Wikipedia)
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Many reefs result from natural, abiotic (non-living) processes such as deposition of sand or wave erosion planing down rock outcrops.
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Narrows (Wikipedia)
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A narrows may form where a stream passes through a tilted bed of hard rock lying between two softer beds: "[i]f the hard beds are vertical, so that their outcrop does not shift as erosion proceeds, a narrows is developed". Like a dam, this "raises the water level for a short distance upriver". A narrows is also
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Knickpoint (Wikipedia)
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Knickpoints reflect different conditions and processes on the river, often caused by previous erosion due to glaciation or variance in lithology.
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Aeolian landform (Wikipedia)
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Aeolian landforms, or Eolian landforms, are produced by either the erosive or depositive action of wind.
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Wikipedia: Plateau
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Plateaus can be formed by a number of processes, including upwelling of volcanic magma, extrusion of lava, and erosion by water and glaciers.
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Pediplain (Wikipedia)
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The result is that the surface is eroded chiefly backward and that downward erosion is limited.
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Surge channel (Wikipedia)
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A surge channel is a narrow inlet, usually on a rocky shoreline, and is formed by differential erosion of those rocks by coastal wave action.
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Summit accordance (Wikipedia)
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Summit accordances can be the vestiges of former continuous erosion surfaces that were uplifted and eroded.
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Wikipedia: Batholith
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These areas are exposed to the surface through the process of erosion accelerated by continental uplift acting over many tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years.
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Cut Bank (Wikipedia)
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A cut bank, also known as a river cliff or river-cut cliff, is the outside bank of a curve (meander) in a water channel (stream), which is continually undergoing erosion.
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River island (Wikipedia)
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Such changes may be caused by interactions with a tributary, or by the opposing fluvial actions of deposition and/or erosion that form a natural cut and meander.
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Zhangye National Geopark (Wikipedia)
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Wind, rain, and time then sculpted extraordinary shapes, including towers, pillars, and ravines, with varying colours, patterns, and sizes.
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Lofoten (Wikipedia)
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This is a normal fault whose fault scarp has been eroded, forming a strandflat.
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Magdalen Islands (Wikipedia)
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They are subject to rapid erosion (often more than 1 metre, 3 ft 3 in per year) due to the action of frost, ice, waves and sea spray that make numerous openings while undermining their base.
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Fort Valley (Virginia) (Wikipedia)
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Over millennia, the Fort Valley was etched away due to low resistance of its limestone, while the mountain ridges of the Massanutten range are a tough quartz sandstone (Massanutten Sandstone, correlative to the Tuscarora Sandstone further to the west in the Ridge and Valley region) more resistant to that erosion.
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