River Erosion – Arizona, Colorado River Grand Canyon.

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River Erosion – Arizona, Colorado River

Grand Canyon

Gust front dust cloud moving across the Big Spring Field

Station Wind Erosion – Big Spring, Texas

Glacial Erosion – Troughs

Yosemite National Park, Wyoming

Wind Erosion

Arches National Park Moab, Utah

This one is 291 ft across – the size of a football field – the narrowest part is only 6ft wide

Mass Movement- Slump

River Erosion - Arizona

Wave Erosion - The process of uplift, fluctuating sea levels, and wave erosion is etched on the rocks of Cape Flattery, Washington. Benches visible just above the current waterline represent prehistoric sea level. Click image for a larger view.

River Erosion and Deposition near Arncliffe, England

The steep sides of Doubtful Sound (New Zealand) indicate that it is a flooded glacial valley, formed when the world's sea levels rose following the last ice age.

Glacial Erosion – Fjord

Stream Erosion

Rock Creek

San Gabriel Mountain, CA

Chalk outcroppings--dome, sugar-loaf and table-shaped--symbolize the different stages of wind erosion. White Desert - Egypt

High Tide

Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park

Canada

Low Tide

World famous El Arco - the rock arch of Los Cabos – Baja California

Rocks on Cabo Pulmo beach are worn smooth and round by eons of wave erosion

Wave Erosion

Taken from satellites

From Ontario, Canada

Niagra Falls

La Conchita, CA 1995 landslide 

Wind Erosion

Mars, the planet

Guatemala

Mudslides

Napa, CaliforniaBrazil

Glacial Erosion – Rock Glacier Atlin Mountain in northern British Columbia, Canada

Weathering - water collects and accentuates rates of chemical weathering

Water pockets caused by wind erosion

Mars, Utah

What type of weathering caused this rock to break in half?

Mass Movement - Creep

River Erosion - Gua Kerbau River

Malaysia

Wind Erosion Sahara, Africa

Glacial Erosion – Hornes created by the action of erosion and oversteepening of the headwall of a glacier cirque.

Wind Erosion – Tarn Cave, South Africa Soft Layers have been eroded away

Glacial Erosion - Abrasion

Water Erosion of Limestone – River Ardeche, France

Glacial Erosion – Himalayas, Tibet

River Erosion Waimea Canyon

Kauai, Hawaii