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Eskers and kames are deposited by meltwater streams and they are composed of stratified sand and gravel?
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What refers to sediments deposited from streams?
Alluvium
What is alluvial deposition?
Alluvial sediment:is clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down. Alluvial deposition refers to this process.by which alluvium is thus deposited.
What is an Eskers?
They are formed by streams that deposited minerals that flowed on top of glaciers, inside the cracks of glaciers, and in tunnels below glaciers
How does material deposited by glaciers differ from material deposited by streams?
To answer this, think about the way water moves and how ice moves. Now think of steady fast-moving streams of water and massive hulking glaciers scraping across the land. Streams push sediments along and sort them into normalized groups. Sand is separated from stones of different sizes. Glacier pick up rocks in their slow progress and deposit them later as the ice melts. The streams' depositions are very regular; the glaciers' depositions are very irregular.
Why is sediment deposited in coastal areas?
The sediment is washed into the sea by runoff from the land, especially by rivers and streams. Most of this sediment does not travel very far offshore before settling.
Describe the various types of glacial moraines?
there is glacial drift and that is the act of rock material carried and deposited by glaciers. there is till which is the act of unsorted rock material that is deposited directly by a melting glacier and there is stratified drift which is the result of a glacial deposit that has been sorted and layered by action of streams or meltwater
Do glaciers sort the material they transport?
No. Material that is directly deposited by glaciers, called till, is completely unsorted. However, some of the processes around glaciers, particularly streams from meltwater, can sort material.
What refers to sediments deposited from streams?
Alluvium
What are rocks snd soil deposited by streams called?
they are deposited by sediment
What is carried by streams and deposited on the bottom of lake?
sediment
What is the rock and soil deposited by streams called?
Sediment
Rock and soil deposited by streams are called?
Sediments.
What is the difference between fluvial and alluvial soil?
Fluvial soils are associated with streams and rivers. The Alluvial soil category is primarily composed of unconsolidated basin fill that has been deposited and then altered by water.
What is the rock snd soil deposited by streams called?
Sediment
What is Alluvial Soil carried and deposited from?
Alluvial soil comes from the floodplains, streams and rivers; most especially from fertile farmland. It is deposited in the delta or mouth of a river.
What Sediments being transported by streams and deposited on lake bottoms are best representatives of the?
Principle of Uniformitarianism.
What is alluvial deposition?
Alluvial sediment:is clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down. Alluvial deposition refers to this process.by which alluvium is thus deposited.
