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- wearing
(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles...
- glaciation
The process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice.
- metamorphism
Change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction...
- stratification
Forming or depositing in layers.
- diastrophism
The process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's...
- subduction
A geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward...
- alluvion
Gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment.
- orogeny
The process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's...
- desertification
The gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate...
- intrusion
The forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formati...
- fold
A geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock.