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Deposition
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Is the final stage of an erosional porcess.
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Erosion
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Is a process that wears away surface materials & moves them from one place to another.
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Mass Movement
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When gravity alone causes materials to move down slpoe.
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Creep
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gets its name from the way sedment slowly inch their way down hills.
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Slump
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Is mass movement that happens when loose materials or rock layers slip down a slope.
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Plucking
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process that adds boulders, gravel, and sand, to a glacier's bottem and sides as water freezes and thaws and breaks off pieces of surrounding rocks.
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Glacier
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a moving mass of ice and snow;also agents of erosion
**continental glacier **vally glacier |
