GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sediment moves from one place to another through the process of erosion. Erosion is the removal and transportation of rock or soil. Erosion can move sediment through water, ice, or wind. Water can wash sediment, such as gravel or pebbles, down from a creek, into a river, and eventually to that river’s delta.

Detailed explanation-2: -Deposition is the laying down of sediment carried by wind, flowing water, the sea or ice.

Detailed explanation-3: -Erosion is a mechanical process, usually driven by water, wind, gravity, or ice, which transports sediment (and soil) from the place of weathering. Liquid water is the main agent of erosion. Gravity and mass wasting processes (see Chapter 10, Mass Wasting) move rocks and sediment to new locations.

Detailed explanation-4: -Erosion is the process by which soil and rock particles are worn away and moved elsewhere by gravity, or by a moving transport agent – wind, water or ice.

Detailed explanation-5: -Rainfall produces four types of soil erosion: splash erosion, sheet erosion, rill erosion, and gully erosion.