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The sedimentary deposit that is at the mouth of a mountain canyon becuase of sediment transport. The deposirts are fan shaped.
Boulders are found by the mouth of the river, becuase of the decrease in gradient. |
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| It happens when the rivers flow into a valley and as a result, shapes the bottom floor. |
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| formed at the bottom or along the shore of lakes, as geological strata. |
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A desert usually recieves no precipitation. More water is lost by evotransportaion (precipiation). The are is usually very hot and dry (low humidity)
Most desert surfaces are erosional. They are formed of bare rock (hamada) or deflated stony plain (serirs or reg). There is also sand in the desert. |
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| Its a wetlant that has large areas of land by shallow bodies of waters. It has alot of dry land and aquatic vegetation. It might have freshwater, seawater or brackish water. Some sediments that are found in swamps are nitrogen and phosphurus |
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The beaches description is that it is always byy a huge body of water, which is mainly the point. The surface we walk on is sand, which is a sediment material.
A beach contains sedimentary rocks such as shale, becuase of the sand. |
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