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Are water erosion and ice erosion different?

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Yes, very. Ice erosion works like this; water gets into the cracks in an element, and freezes, and as it's freezing it expands. When it expands, it burrows a little further down than before, and this continues until the element splits. Water erosion: Fast rushing water runs past an element, and slowly takes minuscule sediments along with it, until the element wears away to nothing.

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