How does water movement affect the surface features and how do we know it’s changing?
example: effect of river flow on weathering, erosion, and deposition. Can you guys please describe it?
Thaaanks in advance.
I believe weathering would be more affected by rain, snow, ice, etc… rather than moving water such as a creek, river, and such. But erosion and deposition can most certainly be affected by those flowing types of water.
Water is an irresistable force, it’ll eventually wear down anything, given time. It’ll get into cracks, break it up into smaller particles. As these particles are carried along, moved along downstream, they’ll settle out. The heavier particles won’t move as far, but the smaller ones can go quite far. As these particles settle out, and deposit, this is the deposition stage.
February 13th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
I believe weathering would be more affected by rain, snow, ice, etc… rather than moving water such as a creek, river, and such. But erosion and deposition can most certainly be affected by those flowing types of water.
Water is an irresistable force, it’ll eventually wear down anything, given time. It’ll get into cracks, break it up into smaller particles. As these particles are carried along, moved along downstream, they’ll settle out. The heavier particles won’t move as far, but the smaller ones can go quite far. As these particles settle out, and deposit, this is the deposition stage.
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