River processes - created from Mind Map

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Erosion

Transportation

Deposition

Abrasion

Attrition

solution

Hydraulic action

Rocks hit the cliffs causing pieces of them to break away.

Rocks hit against each other causing them to become smoother and smaller pebbles.

Chemicals dissolve the sediment.

When water enters cracks in the cliff causing them to expand

Traction

Solution

Suspension

Saltation

When large pebbles role along the sea bed.

The transport of dissolved chemicals

lighter sediment is carried within the water

Pebbles are bounced along the river bed