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