Erosion is the wearing-away of the land and the carrying-away of the pieces of rock, by running water above all, but also by the wind, by ice and by the waves of the sea.
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Example 10.6 (The stream after the storm)
The brown water of Tom and Lena’s stream carries mud torn from its banks: that is erosion. A week later, the stream is clear again, and a thin layer of mud covers the bottom of the calm pool at the end of the playground: that is deposition.