Difference between Erosion and Weathering
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Erosion |
Weathering |
1. | Erosion is referred as the movement of sediments from one location to another. | Weathering is referred as the breaking down of rocks into sediments. |
2. | The removal and transport of earth materials by agents like rivers, glaciers, gravity, currents, wind, waves and streams. | The breaking of rocks because of exposure to the atmosphere is called as Weathering. |
3. | Erosion is divided into various types and are wind erosion, zoogenic erosion, snow erosion, anthropogenic and water erosion. | Weathering is divided into two types and chemical weathering and physical weathering. |
4. | It is a geological process which involves transportation of geological sources | It is a geological process which involves the breakdown of sources. |
5. | In the erosion, movement takes place which is followed by redeposition at a new place. | In the weathering, movement of sources does not takes place. |
6. | The erosion takes a shorter time period. | The weathering takes a longer time period. |
7. | Displacement of solid occurs with the help of wind, ice and water. | Decomposition od minerals, soil and rocks with the help of atmosphere. |