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What is the difference between vertical and lateral erosion?
Vertical erosion occurs when the river erodes it's bed, causing the deepening of the bed. Laterial erosion occurs when the river erodes it's banks, causing it's channel to widen.
What does horizontal or lateral erosion mean?
Lateral or horizontal erosion means erosion taken place on the sides of a footpath or river bank. The opposite if lateral/horizontal erosion is vertical erosion, where erosion is taken place under the river bed or the bottom of a footpath.
Did erosion create the Chattahoochee river?
yes because it formed over time
How does erosion and weathering create the Kentucky cave systems?
Well, it is not weathering. It is Erosion. The river swept through the rock and deposoted the bit of rock in another area.
What causes river erosion?
Over time the moving water carries particles of the river bed and banks away, and if there happens to be a flood that can happen much more quickly.
What a river causes by removing rocks and soil from itys river bed?
erosion. and due to that erosion we get sedimentary rock.
What is vertical erosion?
Vertical erosion is when the depth of the river is greater than the width causing erosion to take place on the bed of the river. This is also when lots of water enters the river but not as much is exiting it.
What is the difference between vertical and lateral erosion?
Vertical erosion occurs when the river erodes it's bed, causing the deepening of the bed. Laterial erosion occurs when the river erodes it's banks, causing it's channel to widen.
Is there any erosion on the river Thames?
All rivers create erosion but the Thames does not have significant problems of erosion.
Define pothole as it relates to river erosion?
a circular hole in the bed of a river produced by abrasion
What does horizontal or lateral erosion mean?
Lateral or horizontal erosion means erosion taken place on the sides of a footpath or river bank. The opposite if lateral/horizontal erosion is vertical erosion, where erosion is taken place under the river bed or the bottom of a footpath.
What help create the canyons?
The Colorado River and erosion helped to create the Grand Canyon.
What is the work of a river?
The work of the river as an agent of erosion and deposition is that it carries away the soil from one point to another. At a level ground, the sand deposits at the bottom of the river bed.
How did the Colorado River create the Grand Canyon?
Erosion over thousands of years.
Did erosion create the Chattahoochee river?
yes because it formed over time
What helped create the Grand Canyon?
By the upheaval of the earth and the erosion caused by the Colorado River over a period of 17 million years.
How does erosion and weathering create the Kentucky cave systems?
Well, it is not weathering. It is Erosion. The river swept through the rock and deposoted the bit of rock in another area.
