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These form when weathered material is dropped offshore as sediment?
Alluvial fans
What are the results of deposition along the course of a stream or river?
Deposition creates landforms such as alluvial fans and deltas.It can also add soil to a river.Hope this helps.
What is a good example sentence for the word deposition?
The mineral deposition in this alluvial fan is very unusual for this part of the continent.
Difference between alluvial fan and scree fan?
It is a fan-or cone-formed store of silt crossed and developed by streams. In the event that a fan is developed by garbage streams it is appropriately called a flotsam and jetsam cone or colluvial fan. The inflexible hand screen fan, was likewise a profoundly enlivening and coveted article among the higher classes
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These form when weathered material is dropped offshore as sediment?
Alluvial fans
What do alluvial fans look like?
Alluvial fans are triangular deposits of sediment called alluvium. These fans occur when fast-moving water is released from the confines of a river or stream bank and then flows over a wider plain.
What creates alluvial fans?
erosion
Are alluvial fans found in glaciers?
No
Does river severn have an alluvial fan?
The River Severn does not have an alluvial fan. Rivers that empty into estuaries do not have alluvial fans.
What is the origin and appearance of a bajada?
Alluvial fans
Where do alluvial fans form?
base of mountains
Where are alluvial fans?
In Death Valley, CA
What is a bajada in a desert?
A bajada is an alluvial plain formed at the base of a mountain by the coalescing of several alluvial fans.
Where are alluvial fans located?
In Death Valley, CA
How are ephemeral streams and alluvial fans related?
herro
What is formed by the intersection of several alluvial fans in one valley?
A bajada may be created. A bajada is a broad, gently sloping surface formed by the coalescing of alluvial fans.
