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Glacial Erosion What route does a glacier follow?

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Page 1: Glacial Erosion What route does a glacier follow?

Glacial Erosion

What route does a glacier follow?

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Glacial Transport

Two black arrows make one blue one. Why?

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Glacial Deposition

Rolling down Highway 29. And up again

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Coastal Erosion

What happened here?

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Wave Transport

What is a groyne?

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Wave deposition

What is this?

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Wind erosion

A rock pedestal

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Wind Transport

What is happening?

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Wind Deposition: barchans

What are these made of?

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River Erosion - canyon Almost vertical sides

No weathering of valley sides

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River erosion – ‘V’ shaped Valley

Open V shape valley because weathering attacks valley sides

Some vertical erosion

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Interlocking SpursVertical erosion

River meanders around hard rock

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Interlocking spurs: diagram

River erodes downwards

River meanders around hard rock