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How would erosion and deposition of sediment along a shoreline be affected if the longshore current was blocked by a wall built out into the water?
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the water would then get trapped and fill up until it broke through the wall
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What is it called sediment is dropped and comes to rest?
Deposition
Explain the difference between erosion and deposition?
Glacial erosion is the process by which a glacial flows over the land, picking up rocks. Glacial deposition is the process by which a glacier gathers a huge amount of rock and soil as it Erodes the land in the path
What is the dropping of sediment that occurs when an agent of erosion can no longer carry its load?
I'm pretty sure it is called "deposition".
Which is the best definition of deposition The transportation of sediments to another place The dropping off of eroded sediment or The swelling of earth materials as it soaks up water?
I don't know what you mean, but I hope this helps: Deposition is the putting down of a load. In geological terms, by a glacier, river, or wind mainly.
What does uncomformity mean?
An unconformity is a gap in time of the rock record. In a stratigraphic column this is evidence that erosion has removed a portion of the natural deposition of sediment in an area. In a disconformity erosion takes place between sedimentary rocks that have not been otherwise modified. In an angular unconformity, previous bedding has been tilted from its original deposition and undergone erosion, and is topped by new sediment that is deposited horizontally on top of this tipped surface. In a nonconformity, huge amounts of erosion have exposed igneous or metamorphic basement rock and there is an igneous or metamorphic rock contacting sedimentary rock.
An accumulation of sediment deposited by waves and longshore drift along a bay is called a?
wrack is the debris along the shoreline
What is the process by which beach sediment moves down the beach with the current?
the process in which beach sediment move down a beach with the current
What drifts in longshore drif?
Beach sediment
How do groynes stop continental drift?
They don't. Groynes inhibit longshore drift. Longshore drift occurs when currents develop parallel to a shoreline as a result of wave action, carrying sediment with them. Groynes catch sediment and interfere with these currents. Continental drift, a part of plate tectonics, is a completely unrelated process.
How are shale beaches formed?
Shale beaches are formed from the deposition of sediment form nearby shale cliffs which are eroded. The shale can also be deposited at a beach due to longshore drift.
What transports most of the sediment in the beach environment?
Longshore Currents transport most sediment along the shore of beaches, according to my science book. .
What drift in longshore drift?
Beach sediment
Where do longshore currents transport sediment?
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What is deposition of sediment outside the banks of a river?
Sediment
What is the process of rock particles settling on the riverbed called?
The process is called deposition.
What is longshore drift?
How sand and other materials are carried parallel to the shore by the waves. The waves approach the beach at an angle.Longshore drift is the movement of sediment along the coastline.Longshore drift is the transport of erosion sands along a shoreline by the current flowing along it.
What is deposition in science?
Deposition is the process of sediments being deposited as a sediment
