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<blockquote data-quote="madtuna" data-source="post: 493823" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>What I should have wrote was "what is now uphill MAY have once been downhill"</p><p></p><p>What I mean is picture a mountain millions of years ago with a reef just showing out the top. </p><p>Weathering/erosion causes the soil surrounding the reef to erode at a faster rate than the reef itself. As the reef slowly erodes, rocks and gold fall off both sides.</p><p>Due to wind and rain predominantly coming from one dirrection, one side erodes quicker than the other side. So although millions of years ago what might have started out equal, today we might have an upside and a down side of the reef.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes the land is flat with a reef in the middle... both side eroded at the same pace, so no upslope and no downslope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="madtuna, post: 493823, member: 44"] What I should have wrote was "what is now uphill MAY have once been downhill" What I mean is picture a mountain millions of years ago with a reef just showing out the top. Weathering/erosion causes the soil surrounding the reef to erode at a faster rate than the reef itself. As the reef slowly erodes, rocks and gold fall off both sides. Due to wind and rain predominantly coming from one dirrection, one side erodes quicker than the other side. So although millions of years ago what might have started out equal, today we might have an upside and a down side of the reef. Sometimes the land is flat with a reef in the middle... both side eroded at the same pace, so no upslope and no downslope. [/QUOTE]
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