Physical Environments - Lithosphere Flashcards
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Abrasion
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The process by which rocks within the ice sheets and rivers scrape and erode the land over which they pass.
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Arete
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A narrow ridge between two corries, formed as corries are formed on two adjacent sides of a mountain.
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Attrition
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An erosional process that takes place in both rivers and at the coast. At the coast attrition happens when rocks and pebbles carried by the waves smash into each other, wearing each other away and gradually becoming smaller and rounder and smoother.
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