Processes called erosion, mass movement and weathering break down and remove material from the coast. The material is moved along the coastline by the sea and deposited when there is energy loss.

Glacial cirques are distinctive amphitheatre‐shaped depressions formed by the persistent erosive action of mountain glaciers. These landforms typically exhibit steep, often overhanging headwalls, ...

The Alpine regions, with their well‐preserved glacial landforms and stratigraphic records, are key archives for understanding past climate variability and landscape evolution. Over successive ...

Cliffs close cliffA vertical rock face. along the coastline do not erode at the same pace. A cliff is a steep rock face. When a stretch of coastline is formed from different types of rock, headlands ...

The Department of Geosciences at Western Michigan University is mapping the glacial geology of southwestern Michigan under the National Geologic Mapping Act of the U.S. Geological Survey. This program ...

This paper describes geomorphological and sedimentary evidence from Aran Island and Cruit Island (County Donegal, north-west Ireland), informed by evidence from across west Donegal, which helps to ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud. When you ...

For the aspirants of Civil Services IAS Prelims Exam, here, we have provided the Multiple Choices Questions which are developed from the content of Goh Cheng Leong’s Physical and Human Geography, one ...

Twenty-six sites with remnants of gravelly saprolites (grus) have been located in southeast Sweden. Joint block hills (castle kopjes) and steep rock walls with weathered joints as well as rounded ...