Part of places one earth process inside the larger cycle it belongs to. Wikipedia notes that "the transport of eroded materials from their original location is followed by deposition, which is arrival and emplacement of material at a new location," making erosion one stage among several in a single ongoing cycle. This dimension shows which wider system a given process is a piece of.
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Field of Studythe branch of geology that studies rocks, their mineralogy, composition, texture, structure and the conditions under which they form 1 Part Of
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the branch of geology that studies rocks, their mineralogy, composition, texture, structure and the conditions under which they form
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