River, Glacier, wind, sea waves are the agent of erosion and deposition in geomorphological process

and process is erosion, denudation, transformation, and deposition are process

River, Glacier, wind, sea waves are the agent of erosion and deposition in geomorphological process

and process is erosion, denudation, transformation, and deposition are process

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Basically agents are cause to change.

While processes are a way to change.

Geomorphic agents are like the wind, water, snow, etc and the geomorphic process is like attrition, ablation, corrosion, solution.

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I agree with Bayan Hussien

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Dear Saad Ajeel Mubarak Al-Daraji,

The following analogy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPZ94qFQ8Lk

Agent (woman, cleaner, and the chemical)…process (window cleaning)… and before made good responses you will help to get a good response to your question…

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Laszlo

Geomorphogical studies begin with evidence. When we consider the possible range of processes responsible for causing the evidence, we must take account of all reasoned historical opinions about similar evidence elsewhere. Some of those historical opinions may depend on uniformitarian processes, others on catastrophic processes. We select the combination of processes, their sequence and timing most likely to explain our particular evidence. That choice will be based on its context and ancillary evidence. Those processes will likely depend on a combination of several agents and components, all of which must be listed and their origins described. Your final explanation will describe how those agents combined dynamically as a coherent process to produce the evidence.

Saad Ajeel Mubarak Al-Daraji

The latest example will be us, the human species being the geomorphological agent in the Anthropocene or Anthropic Geomorphology (read: the destructions!!).

Here is a good read on the topic from Price et al., 2011

Article Humans as major geological and geomorphological agents in th...

Attached is the PDF.

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Souvik Sen

Geomorphological processes are all

those physical and chemical changes that cause changes to the Earth's surface

Geomorphgical agent is any means

capable of securing and transporting

earthy material

Those which are responsible for creating certain landforms such as river, winds, water, waves, glaciers etc. can be referred as geomorphological agents. The geomorphological processes are those which shape the earth by creating certain landforms with the help of these agents.

The earth is constantly in motion and as it moves, there are natural processes whose actions are driven by factors. These processes include weathering, mass wasting, erosion, transportation, and deposition. These extrinsic (exogenic) processes are shaped by factors (agents shaping the earth) such as running water, ice, mind, and gravity which are capable of moving earth-based materials and aid in landform development and its overall cycle.

Through the process of urbanisation, humans engage in construction which alters the pristine nature of the soil and its internal layers. Activities such as road construction, housing, and other infrastructural development shape the earth and alter its original morphology. Other earth-shaping activities of man include mining, crude oil exploration and exploitation, agriculture, dam construction and so on. So, man is also a geomorphic agent and the aforementioned activities are the associated geomorphic processes.

En geomorfología cada agente erosivo, tiene sus propias formas de construir y destruir el relieve del terreno, y esto nos lleva también que cada agente, también produce relieves denudativos, relieves por depositación de los mismos materiales atacados por el agente erosivos, y finalmente también en su etapa más avanzada producen relieves residuales.

Otro punto importantes es que un agente erosivo, cambia a otro por condiciones diferentes en el clima, asociado a esto con el clima, y la altura topográfica de las montañas.

Por ejemplo se puede pasar de un ambiente glacial, que cambia a fluvial, luego a marino y finalmente pasa a eólico, y formar, incluso dunas.

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Naturally, geomorphic agents are something that work or that have power to work on earth surface creating landforms trough erosion, transportation and deposition processes.

Geomorphic processes are all processes that work on earth crust creating landforms. The processes could be devided into endogenic processes (tectonic and magmatism) and exogenic processes (works of geomorphic agents: water, wind and glaciers).

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The process consists of different agents that influence each other and, for example, the landscape is just the result of the performance of different agents in a given period of time.

Saad,

Joynal and Subhash both summarise the answer to you question very well. The processes of weathering, mass movement, erosion, transportation and deposition all are driven by agents such as wind, water, ice, waves, tides. But more important for geomorphology is the study of the processes involved in that each of the agents mentioned above have specific factors that drive the process forward and permit measurement. For example, in a scree slope physical weathering is the main agent involved through freeze-thaw action along joints and fractures in the rock. But chemical reactions may also be at work such as oxidation, hydration, hydrolysis, carbonation softening up the rock along the joint planes. Climatic factors control the rates of weathering as does the mineral composition in any rock.

Finally, time, space and causality (Schumm & Lichty 1965?) are major factors in themselves. Time- is it seconds, hours, days, years, millennium. Space- is it micro- , meso-, or macro-. And lastly the agent or process that causes it all to happen.

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George Strachan

Process include the machanism that is accopanied by the agents .. Simplely agents as glavisl, fluvial, aeolian etc....but processes disclose the weathering , erosion, massmovement etc... The agent may never work in same rate that effect the processes and resultant landforms.

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An agent (water, ice, wind, heat, etc) is the responsible for the process (any form of erosion or weathering), and processes are modified by factors related to the environment (topography, climate) at different scales. The result of this interactions are the landforms and its inner characteristics

The landscapes or technically the Geomorphic landscapes and features you see on Earth's surface are formed by mechanisms (PROCESSES or GEOMORPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. Weathering i.e. wear and tear of natural material, Erosion i.e. where transportation of the material is involved - say by rivers etc.) caused by various natural agencies viz. wind, river/ water, glaciers etc. [AGENTS or GEMORPHIC PROCESSES].

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AK

Dear Saad,

A process is a force applied on earth materials affecting the same. An agent is a mobile medium (like running water, moving ice masses, wind, waves and currents etc.) which removes, transports and deposits earth materials. Running water, groundwater, glaciers, wind, waves and currents, etc., can be called geomorphic agents.

The endogenic and exogenic forces causing physical stresses and chemical actions on earth materials and bringing about changes in the configuration of the surface of the earth are known as geomorphic processes.

I hope it helps you.

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