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Alaska: Mendenhall Glacier

wind erosion in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era

Figure 2: Dissected pediment surfaces on the northeastern flank of Mount Graham, southeastern Arizona. The pediments are mantled with early Pleistocene–late Pliocene alluvium.

Figure 1: Planation surface cut across dipping Paleozoic sandstone in the James Range, central Australia.

Figure 1: A schematic representation of the biogeochemical cycle of carbon.

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Alaska: Mendenhall Glacier

wind erosion in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era

Figure 2: Dissected pediment surfaces on the northeastern flank of Mount Graham, southeastern Arizona. The pediments are mantled with early Pleistocene–late Pliocene alluvium.

Figure 1: Planation surface cut across dipping Paleozoic sandstone in the James Range, central Australia.

Figure 1: A schematic representation of the biogeochemical cycle of carbon.

Investigate the role of water in erosion and in the greater geologic rock cycle

Colorado River geologic footprint and sandbar formation

Learn how basaltic rock composing the Columbia Plateau was once lava from a series of volcanic fissure eruptions

View an Icelandic waterfall and learn about its geologic life cycle and erosion into a smooth riverbed

Know about the force of gravity which gives stones their shape

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