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Processes studied under geomorphology, the atlas's discipline for landforms and the surface processes that shape them. Includes Mass Wasting, the downslope movement of rock, soil and debris under gravity, from slow creep to sudden landslides, that reshapes hillslopes and valleys over time. Belongs here: a process whose primary discipline is the shaping of land surface forms by gravity and surface transport. Does not belong here: a deeper structural or tectonic process studied under geology, even one that ultimately produces the slopes geomorphology studies (Geology).

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