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Glacial Erosion What route does a glacier follow?.
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Glacial Erosion
What route does a glacier follow?
Glacial Transport
Two black arrows make one blue one. Why?
Glacial Deposition
Rolling down Highway 29. And up again
Coastal Erosion
What happened here?
Wave Transport
What is a groyne?
Wave deposition
What is this?
Wind erosion
A rock pedestal
Wind Transport
What is happening?
Wind Deposition: barchans
What are these made of?
River Erosion - canyon Almost vertical sides
No weathering of valley sides
River erosion – ‘V’ shaped Valley
Open V shape valley because weathering attacks valley sides
Some vertical erosion
Interlocking SpursVertical erosion
River meanders around hard rock
Interlocking spurs: diagram
River erodes downwards
River meanders around hard rock