The movement of rock fragments is called erosion.
Gravity plays a significant role in the movement of rock fragments. Rock fragments are often transported downhill by gravity through processes like landslides, rockfalls, and creep. The weight and slope of the terrain determine the speed and distance that rock fragments can travel due to gravity.
Erosion is the term used to describe the movement of rock particles via wind, water, and ice.
A talus slope is formed by the accumulation of rock fragments that have fallen off a steep rock face due to weathering and gravity. This mass movement is known as rockfall or cliff collapse.
Rock fragments that are squeezed together tightly form a sedimentary rock called breccia. Breccia is composed of angular fragments of rocks that are cemented together by a fine-grained matrix. It typically forms near fault zones or where there has been significant rockfall or landslides.
The downward rapid movement of rocks resulting in mass wasting is called rockfall. It occurs when rocks or rock fragments fall freely through the air due to the force of gravity.
The movement of rock fragments is called erosion.
Gravity plays a significant role in the movement of rock fragments. Rock fragments are often transported downhill by gravity through processes like landslides, rockfalls, and creep. The weight and slope of the terrain determine the speed and distance that rock fragments can travel due to gravity.
Rockfall.
Erosion is the removal of solids. This movement can be caused by wind, water, ice, or gravity. There is not a general location for erosion to move rock fragments. Although most erosion moves rock fragments to a lower location in regards to elevation. Although with wind erosion it can be in the direction of a constant wind force.
Erosion is the term used to describe the movement of rock particles via wind, water, and ice.
fault breccia
Rockfall.
The movement of fragments of rock by water, wind, or ice is called erosion. It is a natural process that helps shape the Earth's surface over time by wearing down rocks and transporting the resulting sediments to new locations.
Rivers can transport rock fragments downstream through erosion and deposition, causing them to break into smaller pieces through abrasion. Glaciers can pick up rock fragments as they move across the landscape, carrying and depositing them as they melt, which can result in the fragmentation of the rocks due to the forces exerted during glacial movement.
A conglomerate, classified by rounded rock fragments larger than 2cm compacted and cemented into a rock.
A clastic rock.
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