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Water, the transporter of sediment, seeks the lowest possible point for deposition. Rivers and streams carry sediment downward through elevations until they are deposited in oceans.
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What can cause sediment to form on land?
Sediment in the urine is completely normal in low levels. However, sediment in higher levels can be caused by bladder stones, liver disease and diabetes.
Large or small depression in the land or ocean floor?
A basin is a large or small depression in the surface of land. or the ocean. A basin can be caused by plate tectonics or erosion.
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.
How do sediments on the ocean floor vary in relation to an ocean ridge?
The transport of sediment depends on its grain size and the original location where it was produced. Terrigenous sediment can be transported to the deep sea via rivers or by wind. Material transported by rivers most commonly ends up deposited on thecontinental margin, the shallow portions of the ocean that are within several hundred kilometers of land. When continental margin deposits accumulate fast and get overly steep, or when an earthquake or storm causes the sediment to be resuspended, turbidity currents provide additional transport out to the deep sea. The resuspension of the sediment into the bottom water causes it to be more dense than the overlying water, and thus these turbidity currents flow downslope to the more distant ocean basin -humberto <3
What does terrigenous sediment consist of?
Terrigenous sediment is derived from land and usually deposited on the continental shelf, continental rise, and abyssal plain
What can cause sediment to form on land?
Sediment in the urine is completely normal in low levels. However, sediment in higher levels can be caused by bladder stones, liver disease and diabetes.
How does the ocean affect temperatures on the land?
Ask the smarty who caused Global Warming...
Large or small depression in the land or ocean floor?
A basin is a large or small depression in the surface of land. or the ocean. A basin can be caused by plate tectonics or erosion.
When a river slows down as it reaches the ocean sediments carried by the river are deposited.What kind of land form is created from the sediment?
It is called a delta
Why are animals and plants that live in the sea more commonly fossilised than those that live on land?
sediment and other minerials that form fossiles build up in the ocean much faster than on land, so there ar many more fossiles in he ocean than on land
When rivers journey downhill they cut away land along their sides and then what do they do?
they go out to a ocean or lake depositing sediment along the way. (hope this is what you meant)
When does a sediment deposit the sediment it is carrying?
When a glacier melts it deposits the sediment it eroded from the land, creating various landforms.
What is water flowing over land carrying particles of sediment?
Runoff is water flowing over land that carries particles of sediment.
Is the place where two tectonic plates move away from one another?
mid - ocean ridges, they're caused by divergent boundaries Rifts are also on land, such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa mid - ocean ridges, they're caused by divergent boundaries Rifts are also on land, such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa mid - ocean ridges, they're caused by divergent boundaries Rifts are also on land, such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa
How are deltas classified?
A delta is a land formation caused by the flow of silt at the mouth of a river. Over time, the sediment forms a mound or a series of mounds that have considerable size.
How has the Amazon landform changed overtime?
Over time, the Amazon has changed to flow into the Atlantic. Shifting sediment has caused an affect called "falling land" by people who come to the region.
What do sediment deposits on dry land form?
deltas
