EARTH SCIENCE
SEDIMENTS
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river water slowing as it enters the ocean
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salt water & fresh water mixing together
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ocean waves transporting sand toward land
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ocean water slowing as it reaches the coast
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Detailed explanation-1: -1. Alluvial Soils: formed by the deposition of sediments by rivers.
Detailed explanation-2: -alluvial deposit, Material deposited by rivers. It consists of silt, sand, clay, and gravel, as well as much organic matter.
Detailed explanation-3: -A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water. This occurs where a river enters an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, or (more rarely) another river that cannot carry away the supplied sediment.
Detailed explanation-4: -Deposition occurs when the eroding agent, whether it be gravity, ice, water, waves or wind, runs out of energy and can no longer carry its load of eroded material. The energy available to the erosion agents comes from gravity, or in the case of wind, the Sun.