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How are desert arches formed?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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9y ago

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First, it has to be a sea cave...

Then, the water will keep digging in until it reaches and cuts through the other side..

Next, it will keep doing that and then it will have an upside down U on it...

That's how a Sea Arch is formed.

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12y ago

Rock arches form slowly over long periods of time by physical and chemical weathering. There are four steps; 1. Uplift that causes deep vertical, parallel fractures to form. 2. Weathering and erosion that enlarge fractures resulting in narrow walls or 'fins'. 3. Continuing erosion with some fins breached from below and 4. Continued weathering that enlarges the holes and eventually causes the arch to collapse.

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The sea cave may erode even further and eventually become a sea arch, when the top of a sea arch collapses, Its sides become sea stacks!!!

I'm so Glad that i could help someone out there :) ! Good Luck..

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9y ago

A desert arch is formed by the action of wind carried sand grains abrading a weakness in the rock.

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