wavetrain | | sudden and rapid movement of material downslope |
horns | | bowl like depression formed when glacial ice cuts into mountain walls |
moraine | | mounds of wind deposited sand |
barrierspit | | current that travels near and parallel to shoreline |
beach | | extremely slow mass movement downslope |
glacialdrift | | huge continuous mass of ice;Antarctica |
rockfall | | time between breaking waves |
angleofrepose | | place where land and water meet |
cirque | | removal of fine sediment by wind |
mudflow | | column remaining after erosion of mainland |
creep | | underwater exposed ridge of sand |
arete | | forms after erosion of sea cave cuts through completely |
waveperiod | | exposed sandbar connected to shoreline |
seacliff | | South Padre is one of these |
seaarch | | jagged ridges formed between cirques |
deflation | | sharp pyramide shaped peaks formed when cirque glaciers erode |
shoreline | | breaking waves |
till | | skipping,bouncing movement of sand sized particles |
barrierisland | | most common till deposit |
dunes | | unsorted rock material depostied by ice when it melts |
contintental | | groups of waves |
seastack | | area of shoreline made up of material deposited by waves |
saltation | | steepest angle at which loose material will not slide downslope |
sandbar | | formed when waves erode and undercut rock producing steep slopes |
surf | | glacier formed in mountainous area |
longshore | | Missing phrase2 - 28 |
landslide | | all material carried and depostied by glaciers |
alpineglacier | | rapid movement of a large mass of mud |