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Processes of Erosion
Mind map: Processes of erosion
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Processes of Erosion
Hydraulic power
- Trapped air blasted into cliff holes
- cliff smashes due to pressure
- Cavitation
- cliff smashes due to pressure
- Trapped air blasted into cliff holes
Corrasion
- Fragnments of rock
- picked up by sea and hurled at cliff
- rocks erode cliff
- picked up by sea and hurled at cliff
- Fragnments of rock
Abrasion
- 'sanspapering effect'
- pebbles grind over rough surface
- Smooth
- pebbles grind over rough surface
- 'sanspapering effect'
Solution
- Rocks dissolved
- e.g limestone and chalk
- Rocks dissolved
Attrition
- Rock fragments carried by sea
- knock against each other
- - smaller and more rounded pebbles
- knock against each other
- Rock fragments carried by sea
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- Cambridge IGCSE Geography Mind Map on Processes of Erosion, created by ellen.bannister on 12/10/2013.
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