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  2. Sailing stones - Wikipedia

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    Sailing stones (also called sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks) are part of the geological phenomenon in which rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal intervention. The movement of the rocks occurs when large, thin sheets of ice floating on an ephemeral winter pond move and ...

  3. Sediment transport - Wikipedia

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    Sediment transport occurs in natural systems where the particles are clastic rocks (sand, gravel, boulders, etc.), mud, or clay; the fluid is air, water, or ice; and the force of gravity acts to move the particles along the sloping surface on which they are resting.

  4. Glacial erratic - Wikipedia

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    Multiple erratics on the terminal moraine of the Okanogan Lobe. The Cascade Mountains are in the background.. The term "erratic" is commonly used to refer to erratic blocks, which geologist Archibald Geikie describes as: "large masses of rock, often as big as a house, that have been transported by glacier ice, and have been lodged in a prominent position in the glacier valleys or have been ...

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    “The impact area is huge, 150 meters of the road is gone and the landslide area is very active - moving debris and moving rocks - which is making it difficult for our first responders,” he ...

  6. Racetrack Playa - Wikipedia

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    Rock mobility was associated with clear days following sub-freezing nights, which were caused by light breezes and the morning sun breaking up floating ice. Rocks were moved by ice disintegration, with over 60 moving in a single occurrence. Ice frequently fractured near rocks, causing wakes downstream.

  7. Hydraulic action - Wikipedia

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    Hydraulic action, most generally, is the ability of moving water (flowing or waves) to dislodge and transport rock particles.This includes a number of specific erosional processes, including abrasion, at facilitated erosion, such as static erosion where water leaches salts and floats off organic material from unconsolidated sediments, and from chemical erosion more often called chemical ...

  8. Glacial motion - Wikipedia

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    The stone walls found in New England (northeastern United States) contain many glacial erratics, rocks that were dragged by a glacier many miles from their bedrock origin. At some point, if an Alpine glacier becomes too thin it will stop moving. This will result in the end of any basal erosion.

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