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18 Cards in this Set
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Name a zone of deposition |
Delta |
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Most of the dissolved load in streams |
Calcium and sodium |
Bones and salt |
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Erosional Karst feaure |
Sink hole |
Where you wash hands |
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Porosity |
Volume of open space between rocks |
Face pores but rocks |
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Where water intersects earths surface |
Spring |
A season |
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Excessive groundwater pumping causes |
Land subsidence |
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Flood plain |
Naturally formed levee |
Side of river keeping water in |
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Tarn |
Small lake within cirque |
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Hanging valley |
Tributary valley that enters glacial trough |
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Glacial trough |
Mountain thats been wided, deepened, and straightened by glacier |
When a glacier doesnt stay in its lane |
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Mineral |
1. Naturally occuring 2. Inorganic 3. Solid 4. Orderly crystalline structure 5. Definite chemical composition |
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Formation of carbonic acid |
Water + carbon dioxide |
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Formation of sedimentary rock |
Formation, trasportation, deposition, lithification |
FTDL **** The Dairy Life |
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Mechanical weathering |
Frost, root, and sheeting |
Winter root in bed |
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Mass wasting |
Movement of rock/soil due to gravity |
Simpler than the terminology suggests |
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Water table |
Upper level of the saturation zone |
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Glacial budget |
Balance between accumulation and wastage |
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___ forms a "U" shape |
Glacial erosion |
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