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Abrasion |
The grinding and wearing away of rock surfaces. |
Something that happens to rock surfaces. |
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Beach |
Any area of material deposited by waves. |
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Dune |
Mound of when deposited sand |
When sand hits an obstacle and move in the same direction the wind is blowing. |
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Erosion |
The process by which wind, water, or gravity transports soil or sediment from one location to another. |
Process of transportarion |
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Glacier |
An enourmous mass of moving ice. |
Ice that moves.... |
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Headlands |
a narrow piece of land that projects from a coastline into the sea. |
Projects from coastline into sea. |
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Longshore current |
A movement caused by waves hitting the shore at an angle and it tears down and builds up the coastline. Goes in a zigzag pattern. |
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Moraines |
From when a glacier carries off material to the front or side of a glacier. |
From when glacier carries of material. |
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Stratified drift |
Debris washed from a glacier and laid down in well-defined layers. |
Debris washed from glaciers and laid in layers |
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Till |
Unsorted rock material that is deposited directly by a melting glacier. |
Deposited directly by glacial ice. |
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Wave train |
a group of waves of equal or similar wavelengths traveling in the same direction. |
Waves travelling in same direction. |
