EARTH SCIENCE

Platte Canyon High School
Bailey, Colorado

Useful Info

USEFUL INFORMATION
Weathering, Soils & Erosion Vocabulary

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abrasion
caliche
carbonic acid
chemical weathering
creep
debris slide
exfoliation
frost heaving
frost wedging

hardpan
horizon
humus
hydrolysis
landslide
laterite
leaching
mudflow
 

oxidation
pedalfer
pedocal
physical weathering
residual soil
rock flow
rock slide
slide
slump
soil
solifluction
subsoil
talus
topsoil
weathering
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