Transportation

Transportation

Transportation is the movement of material across the Earth's surface by water, wind, ice or gravity. It includes the physical processes of traction (dragging), suspension (being carried) and saltation (bouncing) and the chemical process of solution.

4 types of Transportation

Solution

Materials are dissolved in water and carried along by water.

Suspension

The suspended particles are carried by a medium ( air, water, or ice )

Traction

Particles move by rolling, sliding, and shuffling along eroded surface. These occur in all erosional agents

Saltation

Particles move from the surface to the medium in quick, repeated cycles. The repeated cycles has enough force to death new particles.

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