Sediment

Cape May is the southernmost point in New Jersey and geographically is a peninsula sitting between the Delaware Bay on its western coast and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. Cape May is surrounded entirely by coastlines, making it vulnerable to beach erosion. Erosion is defined by the transport or movement of material. Often confused with weathering, which is the breaking down of a material through physical or chemical weathering, erosion involves only movement and not degradation, although it can

smelled, which is a result of the slide. The valley face now has a steep grade that was left there after the loss of soil from the slide. The third site was the Onondaga Creek. The creek is extremely turbid due to a high amount of sediment carried by the water. This sediment is lacustrine material, mostly clay, and gets deposited further downstream. The fourth site was a view of the alluvial fan. This is a cone shaped fan that spreads out water and debris. It gives an idea of where the water and soil

load and its effect on the site’s own capacity for self-restoration. For example, at the Sears Point Wetlands, no additional fill was placed on the project site even though the land had significantly subsided because of the “high local suspended sediment concentrations in the San Pablo Bay promoting rapid natural sedimentation” (Wetlands and Water 65). Another element to the template design of a restoration site is the decision to excavate tidal channels and a drainage system. Oftentimes, project

Was the world created in six days? The answer to that question is yes, a most definite yes. Just take a look at the Grand Canyon; layers of sediment are proof of how the flood brought different layers of dirt. As you go farther down the Grand Canyon, you can see the different levels of sedimentary rock. You can see that the different layers line up with each other, almost as if someone drew a

mesa’s extensive landscape is covered with biological soil crust as well as an abundance of ephemeral pools. The potholes throughout the mesa are naturally occurring basins in deposits of sandstone that progressively collect rainwater and wind-blown sediment which gradually erode the underlying rock; leaving a series of circular impressions along the mesa’s floor. Weathering, geologic processes such as erosion, and climatic shifts allow for this immense desert ecosystem to continually evolve and change

trash and sediments could be found on the surface of the river, but also the bottom if it. “The modern Yangtze River discharges most of its annual sediment load between June and September, and short-term monthly deposition rates near the river mouth during this period are about 4.4 cm.” (Liu) In the article of “Flux and fate of Yangtze River sediment delivered to the East China Sea”, the author introduced information about short-term and long-term period of the erosion of the sediment and the rising

bedded strata. Smooth surface of platforms occurs when dip is shallow or horizontal. Rocks strength is controlled either platforms are completely or partially inheritance from previous sea level rising. If the platforms developed in softer rocks sediments will be probably completely eroded by rising sea level but if the rocks is harder it may be inherent by past sea level. Edwards (1941) is the

A cause of the erosion in the Grand Canyon and Colorado River is when there is flash flooding the effect of this is the water carries the sediment of from the Colorado River. Another cause is when the erosion if water happens when there were mountains when it keeps on raining the effect of this is the mountain will erode away until there is flat land.The animals or people who live near the

The waves crash down on the innumerable amount of young oysters along the vast coastline. Wave after wave crashes down, the clapping of each individual wave, the white foam as it moves inland. The power of the ocean thrusts shells, rocks, and sand from one spot to another. One grain of sand cunningly finds its way into the mouth of an oyster embedding itself in its soft warm flesh becoming a new found nuisance to the oyster. Over time the oyster coats this grain of sand in hope that the irritation

There are many processes to the formation of Connecticut's surface and landscape.There were many different reasons why Connecticut got its features, for example plate tectonics formed the Appalachian Mountains. Glaciation put the rocks all along the coastline of Hammonasset Beach. Last is weathering and erosion again Hammonasset beach had all of those rocks and since they had cracks in the rocks the water got in and froze even some of the biggest rocks. Plate tectonics are very dangerous when they