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Which agents of erosion can you see on the cover page of the textbook? Which landforms can you see there? Write the process of the formation of anyone.
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- On the cover page of the textbook. We observe the agents of erosion such as rivers, glaciers, and sea waves.
- We see different landforms like - alluvial fans, meander, oxbow lakes, delta, sea, and beach.
- The river in the middle stage picks up more material by bank erosion and gets overloaded. The speed of erosion is reduced. The water moves sluggishly in a bed and turns at every minor change of slope and serpentine bends are formed. Every bend is made more and more pronounced by the dashing of water on the outer bank which gets eroded while inner banks have a deposition. In due course of time, they develop into circular loops, they are called meanders.
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