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Oh, yeah. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast episode 127, weathering, erosion, and rivers.

I'm your host, James Fodor. So this episode marks the start of a probably three episodes

series where we're going to talk about various processes of weathering and erosion. And that might

sound a little specific, but actually this encompasses a

wide range of processes that are sometimes characterized as geomorphology so basically this is

explaining the structure and shape of the different landscape features on earth and this

includes rivers deserts glaciers coastal lines coastal processes, as well as hills,

mountains and so forth. So this basically will look at a range of the mechanisms that give rise

to these different features and how they change over time. In the first episode, we're going to be

talking about weathering and erosion in general terms,

and I'll also talk about mass wasting, and we'll talk about rivers and streams.

In future episodes, we'll look at wind processes in deserts, oceans and coastal processes,

as well as glaciers, rainfall and surface runoff, and some other aspects of this as well.

Recommended pre-listing for this episode is episode 74, Minerals and Rocks, which will give

some general sort of background information.

To get started, I want to give a little bit more background as to sort of what the topic

is that we're covering and how this fits to other things that we've been talking about.

I have produced a number of episodes covering aspects

of geology, so particularly the study of the production and movement of Earth's crust, the different

layers of Earth, you know, like the inner and outer core and the inner and out of mantle,

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