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13 Deposition The rocks or sediment being dropped in a new location

14 Nile River delta in Egypt

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16 Name the forces: Weather or break rock.. Erode or carry rock… Deposit rock in a new location.. The list is similar for each!!!

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20 Navajo sandstone shows timeless weathering. Paria Canyon - Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area, Bureau of Land Management, Arizona, Colorado Plateau.

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22 Badlands at sunset showing results of weathering and erosion

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24 Badlands, clay hills worn away by weathering and erosion

25 The Grand Canyon

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27 Large granite rocks on beach amidst tropical trees. Republic of Seychelles, Africa.

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29 Mount McKinley, Denali National Park, Alaska.

30 Navajo sandstone in detail. Colorado Plateau, Utah/Arizona.

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33 An Aletsch glacier in Switzerland.

34 Glacier Bay, Alaska.

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42 Navajo sandstone shows patterns of wind erosion. Paria Canyon - Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area, Bureau of Land Management, Arizona, Colorado Plateau

43 Weathered swirls of canyon rock. Colorado Plateau, Slot Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Utah.

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45 Tree roots growing into rock.

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47 Glacier; grooves carved during ice age by rocks at bottom

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49 Glacier-carved mountain top

50 Detail of striated patterns on rock during a cloudy, winter day. Zion National Park, Utah.

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53 Glacier Groves

54 Glacial moraine

55 Mushroom rock at sunset looms precariously next to water. Puerto Ballandra near LaPaz, Baja.

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57 The Indus River near Mohenjodero, Pakistan.

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59 The Colorado River.

60 The Yukon River from the air, Canada.

61 Colorado River canyons in Utah

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64 Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California

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66 Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado. Complex dunes attain a maximum height of 800 feet above the floor of the valley. Sangre de Cristo Range is in the background.

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68 Mineral-rich water evaporates and forms gypsum sand that the wind blows into huge dunes. Such dunes are constantly moving and changing their shape

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71 The sand forms a pedestal on which the plants can survive after the dune in which they first grew blows away.

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