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v. - Build up to a level by depositing sediment.

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  • In this way they aggrade each portion of it in turn by means of their shifting channels,
  • After building this sheet of waste the streams ceased to aggrade and began the work of destruction.
  • But as on other glaciated volcanoes, Rainier's water transports so much dirt and rock that its riverbeds rise over time, or aggrade, with the tons of debris that...
  • Even when the river is able to maintain its right of way it may yet have its declivity so lessened that it is compelled to aggrade its course continually, filling the...
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