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What happen if too much sediment is carried away by ocean water?
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∙ 10y ago
Can you be more specific? Sounds like Beach Erosion which is already your answer.
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What can sediment can be carried by?
Water, wind, or ice.
What is the process that happens when small pieces of sediment are carried away?
It is the process of erosion, carried out by the agents of wind, water, ice, and gravity.
What are particles of weathered rock called?
The smaller chunks are pebbles and dust. When they are carried by water, they are called sediment.
How does waves cause erosion?
Waves are energy carried by the water, and this energy pounds away at rocks on the shore, eventually wearing them down. Sediment is carried back into the water by the receding waves. As the waves come to shore again, the sediment acts like sandpaper, slowly wearing away at the shoreline.
How does water in the air over the ocean move to land?
It is carried by wind.
What is the Fancy scientific names for particles of rock being carried along in water?
I would consider tiny pieces of rock carried by water to be sediment. Sediment is generally clay or sand particles, but any type of rock ground into fine particles can be carried by water. This may include igneous-type rocks (those that come from around volcanoes and the bottom of the ocean).
What can sediment can be carried by?
Water, wind, or ice.
The eroded materials carried by water or wind are called?
Sediment
Why do sediments settle to the bottom of a lake or sea?
Sediment settles on the bottom of the lake or sea ultimately because it is heavier than water. Sediment begins as dirt or fragments of rock on land. When precipitation (rain) or flooding occurs these fragments are carried along with the water to the nearest stream, river, or other water reserve. The sediment that is carried into a lake or pond then sinks to the bottom of the body of water. The sediment that finds its way into moving water is ultimately emptied into the ocean, or whichever body of standing water the river or stream flows. Once the sediment reaches the stagnant body of water it will sink to the bottom.
How does sand get in the ocean?
It is first deposited by rivers. Then it is carried by waves form the ocean floor to the beach.
What the sediment forms to make the river to meet the ocean?
I think dirty water
The top layer of the ocean floor is primarily?
Oceanic zone is mostly a region consisting of open ocean water with a wide range of undersea terrain.
What is the process that happens when small pieces of sediment are carried away?
It is the process of erosion, carried out by the agents of wind, water, ice, and gravity.
When does wind-carried sediment fall to the ground?
Wind-carried sediment falls to the ground when wind slows down or some obstacle, such as a boulder or clump of grass, traps the windblown sand and other sediment. When it comes into contact with any obstacle.
What is a non-example of a river delta?
a river delta is a landform created by deposition sediment that is carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water . this occurs where a river enters an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, or another river that can not carry away the supplied sediment.
What are particles of weathered rock called?
The smaller chunks are pebbles and dust. When they are carried by water, they are called sediment.
Why does a delta often forms where a river empties into the ocean?
A river ends its journy when it flows into a body of water such as a ocean or lake. Because the river water, such as an ocean or lake. Because the river water is no longer flowing downhill, the water slows down. Which makes sediment drop to the bottom. Sediment deposited where a river flows into into an ocean or lake builds upa landform called delta.
