Is this an example of Weathering or Erosion?
Describe how this can happen to the road.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
What kind of Weathering is this?
Is this an example of Weathering or Erosion?
What caused this Erosion?
Which of the 5 Forces of Erosion Caused this?
1. Wind
2. Running Water
3. Gravity
4. Waves
5. Glaciers
The Bernard Glacier in Alaska's Saint Elias Mountains looks like a huge alpine highway. Glaciers are slow but highly effective shapers of the land, essentially carrying away anything in their path—from soil and rocks to hills and even the sides of mountains.
Weathering or Erosion?
A waterfall fed by glacial runoff tumbles over sheer cliffs and into the turquoise water of Admiralty Inlet on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Such moving water is among the most powerful of nature's landscape-altering tools.
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