This dimension names the larger system or cycle that a physical process is a step within, a single stage of the rock cycle or the water cycle, for example. Wikipedia describes how, at a plate boundary, "their relative motion determines the type of plate boundary (or fault): convergent, divergent, or transform," each one a distinct part of the single larger system of plate tectonics. Browsing by part of groups individual processes under the wider system that contains them.
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View the Source Rill Erosion (Wikipedia)
Soil Piping (Wikipedia)
Bank Erosion (Wikipedia)
Oxbow Lake Formation (Wikipedia)
Knickpoint Retreat (Wikipedia)
River Capture (Wikipedia)
Cirque Formation (Wikipedia)
Arete Formation (Wikipedia)
Roche Moutonnee Formation (Wikipedia)
Glacial Plucking (Wikipedia)
Pingo Formation (Wikipedia)
Freeze-Thaw Weathering (Wikipedia)
Normal Faulting (Wikipedia)
Reverse Faulting (Wikipedia)
Strike-Slip Faulting (Wikipedia)
Plinian Eruption (Wikipedia)
Strombolian Eruption (Wikipedia)
Lava Dome Formation (Wikipedia)
Island Arc Formation (Wikipedia)
Supercontinent Cycle (Wikipedia)
Indian Ocean Dipole (Wikipedia)
Pacific Decadal Oscillation (Wikipedia)
Madden-Julian Oscillation (Wikipedia)
Southern Annular Mode (Wikipedia)
Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (Wikipedia)
Polar Vortex Formation (Wikipedia)
Atmospheric River Formation (Wikipedia)
Derecho Formation (Wikipedia)
Drought Formation (Wikipedia)
Saltwater Intrusion (Wikipedia)
Ocean Gyre Formation (Wikipedia)
Sea Ice Formation (Wikipedia)
Thermocline Formation (Wikipedia)
Tidal Bore Formation (Wikipedia)
Illuviation (Wikipedia)
Eluviation (Wikipedia)
Silicon Cycle (Wikipedia)
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