Chapter 4: Weathering, Soil, and Mass Wasting Word List

 

Angle of repose

Frost wedging

Sheeting

Chemical weathering

Horizon

Slide

Creep

Internal processes

Slump

Debris flow

Lahar

Soil

Differential weathering

Leaching

Soil profile

Earth flow

Mass wasting

Soil Taxonomy

Eluviation

Mechanical weathering

Soil texture

Erosion

Parent material

Solifluction

Exfoliation dome

Permafrost

Solum

External processes

Regolith

Spheroidal weathering

Fall

Rockslide

Talus slope (Talus)

Flow

Secondary enrichment

Weathering

 

 

Mudflow