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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?
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It is called a delta
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How is sediment created?
Sediments are deposited on to other sediments and immense heat and pressure turn the sediments into a rock
What is created as a result of the moving of rock and sediments?
The ultimate creation of moving rock and sediment is a sediment deposit. Sediment deposits can eventually lithify into sedimentary rock.
How are sediments created?
when a granite rock weathers andit turns to sand or clay also called sediment.
What force created the Mississippi river delta?
Erosion and deposition formed the delta. Sediments were carried south by the river from the central US, including its tributaries including the Ohio, Missouri, and Red Rivers.
What are moraines and drumlins created by?
When glaciers advance or retreat, the sediments left behind create a moraine. Drumlins are created by the flow of glaciers that mold sediment into streamlined, elongated hills.
How are sediments created and how do those sediments make new landforms?
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What do you call a deposit at the mouth of a river?
A deposit at the mouth of a river is called a delta. This land form is created because of the deposition of sediments carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth.
Why is burial usually necessary to turn a sediment into a sedimentary rock?
The key to converting sediment into sedimentary rock is often though of as being pressure. And it is only by burial that enough pressure can be generated on a layer of sediment to "press" it into sedimentary rock. With pressure and time comes what is called compaction and the expulsion of (most of) the space between the particles of sediment that were deposited. Let's look at sediments being laid down and turned into sedimentary rock.When sediments are created, moved and deposited, they can consolidate and form a layer or layers. These strata will be composed of particles of organic and inorganic material. Included will be the intersticial spaces between the sediments. Any water present in the pore spaces (and there usually is) will bring with it dissolved minerals. These can precipitate out in the spaces, and will cause cementation, which is the binding of these minerals to the particles of sediment and the "sticking together" of the sediments. Following the deposition of more material, pressure (lithostatic pressure) will build on the underlying strata. The compaction forces the layer to become more dense and to "turn to stone" over time. And sedimentary rock is the result of this process.
How were the plains and lowlands created?
the erosion of the shield regions created the rest of each continent. rivers and glaciers carried eroded material, called sediment, intoancient seas. there, it accumulated into thickbeds that slowly solidified intosedimentry rock.
What is a delta created by?
Deltas are created when a thick river with slowing meanders deposit the sediment and rocks build up and create new land. This new land causes the river or stream to break apart and creates branches. A delta is now created.
When was Carried Along created?
Carried Along was created in 2000.
What are strata in rock?
Strata are groups of sedimentary bedding planes which were created by a multitude of occurrences. One example: 1. A watershed feeds surface water to a stream. As the slightly acidic surface water flows over rocks and soil, it picks up small bits and pieces of rock and organic matter and interacts chemically with rock, dissolving some of its constituent minerals. 2. The stream flows into a river. The river has a greater capacity to carry sediments, from those that are dissolved in the water, through boulder-sized rocks, depending on the river's turbulence, velocity, and other factors. 3. When the river flows into an ocean or lake, the velocity of the flow is greatly reduced, and the sediments being carried by the water will be deposited on the ocean or lake floor; larger sediments are the first to succumb to friction and gravity while suspended sediments are carried further away from the shore. 4. This deposition of sediments is an ongoing process. The amount and type of sediment may vary seasonally, or from any of a variety of causes. Over long periods of time, these multiple varying layers are covered with massive amounts of additional sediments, which compact them, squeezing out the water and spaces between the individual particles. 5. Given enough time and weight from overlying sediments, cementing minerals "precipitate" from the disappearing fluids surrounding the sediment particles. When the individual particles are cemented together, sedimentary rock is formed, and in this instance, strata will be visible in the sedimentary rock as a record of a periods of deposition.
