Headward erosion
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title:
Headward erosion
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Headward erosion is erosion at the origin of a stream channel, which causes the origin to move back away from the direction of the stream flow, lengthening the stream channel. It can also refer to the widening of a canyon by erosion along its very top edge, when sheets of water first enter the canyon from a more roughly planar surface above it, such as at Canyonlands National Park in Utah. When sheets of water on a roughly planar surface first enter a depression in it, this erodes the top edge o
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The Geographical processes of the Earth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headward_erosion
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2023-08-01T14:24:34Z
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