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What do we call the structures that form when fine grained sediments at the bottom of a shallow body of water are exposed to the air and dry out?
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Is 3 miles considered deep or shallow for a earthquake?
That is quite shallow for an earthquake.
What is a shallow area surrouding a major land mass called?
A shelf sea is a relatively shallow water area formed by the continental shelf.
Is arteries shallow beneath the surface of the skin?
false
Are shallow earthquakes more destructive than deeper earthquakes of the same intensity?
Earthquakes that happen in shallow water cause tsunami and other side affects like landslides.
Where do shallow earthquakes take place?
They take place between the crust and mantle. They are shallow because the tectonic plates move, and when they move past each other it is like rubbing your hands against one another with something sticky on them, eventually one just snaps and that is what creates the shallow quakes.
What do you call the structures that form when fine-grained sediments at the bottom of a shallow body of water are exposed to the air and dry out?
arenow
What are sedimentary structures and why are they so important?
sedimentary structures are important for the classification of sandstone. deep water sediments are deposited by turbidity currents and characterized by a set of sedimentary structures. shallow water sediments are deposited by traction currents and characterized by set of sedimentary structures.
How does sediments deepen rivers?
They don't. Sediments can make a river more shallow.
Does the ocean floor change after a hurricane?
In shallow waters it can. Sediments can be redistributed and sand bars washed away.
When a river flows directly into a shallow sea sediments may from a large triangular deposit what is it called?
Delta
What does holy water sit in?
Holy Water is exposed in the church in a font - a shallow bowl designed specifically for the purpose.
What are the landforms by borders of Hawaii?
all sea bed of coursewith structures & sediments typical of volcanic islands & coral seas & mostly rather shallow & gradual especially along the borders between the countiesbut steep & even quite deep in a few areas along the state federal limits& much deeper at the outer federal limits
What characteristic would best indicate that a rock was formed from sediments deposited in shallow water near shore rather than in deep water?
a large grain size
Why does the Appalachian mountains consist of a few thousand meters of shallow sediments?
Over time as the Earth was developing the dirt and rock that wa there settled and then mountain formed on top of it.
Where did the lava rocks at the Grand Canyon come from?
The bulk of the rock exposed in the walls of the Grand Canyon are sedimentary, derived from sediments that originated from shallow, mid-ocean, or deep ocean depositions, from a constantly invading and receding inland ocean which has long-since ceased to exist. Some layers display evidence of windblown deposition, and deep layers are igneous and metamorphic, the roots of ancient mountains.
How old are the rock layers exposed on the Grand Canyon?
The exposed rock layers at the Grand Canyon are at least about two billion years old. A good 13,000 feet of sediment and lava were first deposited in coastal and shallow marine environments, e.g. NOT inside the Grand Canyon. Earth's folding (which caused the mountains) brought sediment from the Pacific side. Streams and rivers brought sediments from the Appalachian Mountains in the east, which were folded from both the Pangaea-times sea located in the middle of the country and the Pacific Ocean.
What is sand dredging?
Dredging is the excavation activity or operation usual carried out partly under water in shallow area of the seas and waterways for the purpose of gathering the bottom sediments and the disposal of it in different locations.
