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| Fan-shaped deposit that occurs when a river is channeled and empties into valley floors. Spreads at the end of the canyon onto a flatter plain. |
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Fluvial Environments are usually rivers or streams that move deposits from downstream mountains and the sediments move with the path of the river. |
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| Usually lakes and ponds, it has a very slow/calm flow to it sometimes, sediments are usually at the bottom since there is barely any movement. |
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| A very hot and dry environment, the sediments are the sand, and dry soil. |
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| Not so much movement and low elevation, somewhat a bit muddy, the sediment is soil with lots of clay in them at the bottom of the swamp. |
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| Form wherever rivers encounter standing bodies of water such as lakes or oceans, the sediment would have to be soil and rocks. |
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Lots of movement where the waves go back and forth carrier and taking back the sediments from the water, the
sediments are the sand mixed with different chemicals that water carries to the island. |
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