How do rock and soil deposits create landforms?

Answer 1

There are many landforms created by deposition, here are a few:

• Glacial features

• Drumlins: these are 'egg' shaped mounds created by the recession, and then return of a glacier. The glacier deposits it as a hummock, then returns and bulldozes one side, making it steep, while elongating the other by dragging it out
• Hummocks of moraine: these are simply mounds of fragments deposited by a glacier

• Fluvial (River) features

• Meanders: These are bends in a river, and are classic features of erosion and deposition. Erosion occurs on the outside bend, and deposition on the inside. Specifically the river beach is the depositional feature caused by a river
• Deltas: At its mouth, a river loses its velocity as it meets the sea, so it deposits masses of sediment, making the mouth very shallow. Sometimes the sediment breaches the surface, causing the river to branch out at this point, losing more energy and depositing more. This forms a triangular shape, which is why the formation is a delta.

These are just a few features, and there are far, far more, like coastal beaches, levees and erratics.

Answer 2

Rock and soil deposits can create landforms through processes like erosion, weathering, and compaction. Water, wind, and ice can erode softer rock and soil, leading to the formation of features like valleys and canyons. Over time, accumulated deposits can also form landforms such as hills, plateaus, and mountains through compaction and solidification processes.