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Category:Headward erosion

<nowiki>erosione regressiva; Érosion régressive; Hakisan menghulu; Erosão remontante; فرسایش سربالایی; 向源侵蝕; 向源侵蝕; erozja wsteczna; סחיפה לאחור; Terugschrijdende erosie; 向源侵蝕; zpětná eroze; Erosión regresiva; headward erosion; Reqressiv eroziya; 向源侵蚀; erosión remontante; modo de propagación de la erosión; erosion at the origin of a stream channel, moving the origin upstream; erosion regresiva; erosión regresiva; erosion remontante; 溯源侵蚀; Erosione rimontante</nowiki>
headward erosion 
erosion at the origin of a stream channel, moving the origin upstream
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Headward erosion is the lengthening and cutting upstream of a valley or a gully at its head. The stream erodes away the rock and soil at its headwaters in the opposite direction that it flows. It is accomplished by rainwash, gullying, spring sapping, and the slumping of material into the head of the growing valley. Once a spring sapping has begun to cut back, the erosion is speed up by the steep gradient the water is flowing down. (also retrogressive erosion, headwater erosion, head erosion, upward erosion)

 See also category: River sources.

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