In the desert or arid regions, wind is the most active agent of erosion. Wind can lift and carry with it loosed, fine and light rock waste which lies upon the surface. Three processes are involved in wind erosion: DeflationThis refers to the reduction of the land surface through the blowing away of unconsolidated rock…
Category: External Processes of Landform Development
Action of Running Water
Running water is in fact the most prominent agent in the sculpturing of the earth’s surface except in the arid or frozen lands. A river is running water, and refers to a mass of water flowing over the land surface from its source and empties usually into the seas, lakes, swamps or depressions. Whenever rain…
Action of Waves
Some of us must have seen in real life, books or in films that the ocean is often not stable. Sometimes, a feature that looks like a ridge on the surface of the sea or ocean and in forward motion is seen. This ridge or swell is called a wave. It is the rise and…
