Earth processes at different scales

Some processes reshape only a small area, like a landslide burying a hillside in minutes, while others reshape huge regions over millions of years, like the slow collision of continents pushing up an entire mountain range. Earth's surface is constantly changing at both of these scales at once, usually gradually, but sometimes suddenly, through catastrophic events like a major earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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