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Corrasion
Corrasion is a geographical term best used to describe the wearing away of small/fine particles of rock on a river/seabed by a sandpapering action called abrasion, and it collapses to form a dip in the bed. This sometimes happens at the bottom of cliffs to a slanted edge.

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corrasion
Jan 01, 1999; corrasion See ABRASION .
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cave
Jan 01, 2004; cave A large, natural, underground hollow, usually with a horizontal opening. Karst caves result from solution, but corrasion by...
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abrasion
Jan 01, 1999; abrasion ( corrasion ) The erosive (see EROSION ) action that occurs when rock particles of varying size are dragged over or...
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fluvial processes
Jan 01, 1999; fluvial processes The set of mechanisms that operate as a result of water flow within (and at times beyond) a stream channel,...
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Summer.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2004; Summer 1. It was a fine web of fish, it was a burnt glow like a skull, only smaller, dry as the face in the grave, the nose the...
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