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Common term for sand and gravel deposits in a stream channel.

See Pressure tendency.

The process by which large quantities of sand are added to the beach system to offset losses caused by wave erosion.

A theory that relates the formation of precipitation to supercooled clouds, freezing nuclei, and the different saturation levels of ice and liquid water.

A quasi-horizontal chonolith composed of anastomosing ductoliths, whose distal ends curl like a harpolith, thin like a sphenolith, or bulge discordantly like an akmolith or ethmolith.

Sedimentary rock consisting of material that was precipitated from water by either inorganic or organic means.

The first layer of the solar atmosphere found directly above the photosphere.

An interdisciplinary study that seeks to examine Earth as a system composed of numerous interacting parts or subsystems.

Flows of basaltic lava that issue from numerous cracks or fissures and commonly cover extensive areas to thicknesses of hundreds of meters.

See Volcanic island arc.

Varieties of the same element that have different mass numbers; their nuclei contain the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.

See Asthenosphere.

A sequence of stars on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, containing the majority of stars, that runs diagonally from the upper left to the lower right.

One in which both matter and energy flow into and out of the system. Most natural systems are of this type.

A shell of incandescent gas expanding from a star.

A variable radio source of small size that emits radio pulses in very regular periods.

The ability of a telescope to separate objects that would otherwise appear as one.

A pluton similar to but smaller than a batholith.

The color of a mineral in powdered form.

The part of a glacier characterized by snow accumulation and ice formation. Its outer limit is the snowline.