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This is a picture of an Alluvial Fan. In the mountains there is a stream once it
comes down to the basin the water in the
stream spreads outward like a fan. The
stream of water then is rapidly reduced.
Smaller particles are found on the outside
of the Alluvial Fan, oppose to the Larger
particles where there found in the center of
the fan |
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Fluvial Environment is produced by the
action of a river or a stream. Usually moving
in an upstream direction, on the current flow.
A Fluvial Environment is a bedform. This process
takes place when the flow is critical. Also the
material is deposited on the upstream side from the
downstream side. |
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Lacustrine are also known as plains or lakes.
The water that used to be there may have disappeared
By the natural drainage or evaporation that have
Taken place.
Sometimes many of the Lacustrine Environments
Or lakes get filled by the sediments brought down
By the rivers and within time they turn into dry empty
Plains. After this what is left behind can be used to fertile
And produce farm land resulting from what was left of
The sediments. |
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Deserts are one of two types of
Dry climates. This one happens to be
One of the driest of the dry climates.
Usually there is a lot of strong hot sun out
In the deserts. In addition to this, when
there is wind it tends to move the sand up
into mountain shape cones.
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Swamps are wetland areas that show
permanent barrage of large areas of land
by shallow bodies of water. There are mainly two types of swamps. One
Is the true/forest swamp, and the other is the
Traditional/shrub swamp. Inside these swamps
The water can either be fresh, brackish, or seawater.
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A Delta is when lots of sediment form
Where a stream enters a lake or an ocean.
As you can see above at the picture there is
Stream that enter s a bigger body of water.
They accumulate and join altogether, so they
can form something that looks like a tree,
with branches spread out like if they
were the rivers or streams. |
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Beaches and Barrier Islands are low
Ridges of sand that meet parallel at the
Coast. As you see above in the picture
There is the coastal line that separated
The ocean and then the sand.
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