answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

Where waves cause rocks and pebbles onshore to smash together getting smaller and smoother.

User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What is attrition erosion?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Difference between attrition and erosion?

Attrition is a type of erosion. Attrition is the wearing down of something by friction, however erosion is just the wearing down of something. Therefore attrition is simply a way of eroding something.


What is the difference between attrition and erosion?

Attrition is a type of erosion. Attrition is the wearing down of something by friction, however erosion is just the wearing down of something. Therefore attrition is simply a way of eroding something.


What is an antonym for accretion?

Corrosion, attrition, destruction, loss and erosion.


What is marine erosion?

Marine erosion is the action of the sea on coastal landforms. Examples of this type of erosion are hydraulic pressure, abrasion and attrition.


What are the four processes of marine erosion?

hydraulic action, attrition , abrasion and solution


What are the 4 types of Erosion?

Hydrolic action, Attrition, Abrasion, Corrosion (Sollution)


What does attrition mean in sales?

Attrition is a normal erosion over time. In sales, customers will move away or go out of business or simply not need your product any longer.


What are the geographical processes related to the issue of coastal management?

attrition, abrasion, hydraulic action, corrosion and erosion.


What is sea erosion?

Sea erosion is when after a long peiod of time the rocks start to weaken and create a dent in the rocks by oceans and waves crashing on them! The erosion of the land by the constant battering of the sea, primarily by the processes of hydraulic action, corrasion, attrition, and corrosion is what Sea erosion is.


What is attrition in geography?

Attrition is a form river or coastal erosion. It is when friction against the rock particles as they move and become smaller.


Rocks being broken down as they tumble down a river is an example of?

Mechanical weathering (in this case, attrition) during erosion by water.


What is the proper word when rocks are worn away?

All I know is it either could be deposit, hydraulic action, erosion, attrition, abrasion, transport, longshore drift.