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| The alluvial fan is when a river is dumped onto land and a type of deposit in a shape of a fan forms at the mouth of a mountain canyon. This looks like a fan because the sediments are eroded and deposit on the floor of a mountain. |
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| Lagoon is a small body of water that is separated from the ocean be a few barrier islands that lies parallel to the shoreline. |
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Fluvial is when a river or a stream where there are sediments that are being transported down by water. The deposits are formed by a river.
Coarse debris such as boulders and sand are the type of sediments in fluvial. |
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Lacustrine environments consist of sediments that had been transported by a river or stream but most likely the water in these areas has already been evaporated.
The sediments are fined grained and consist of silt and clay. |
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A tidal flat is a big sand or mud area, which has no recognizable plants.
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Deserts are types of areas that almost have no precipitation and are considered to be very warm and dry areas.
The most common type of sediment in the desert is sand. |
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Swamps are known to have still water which tends not to move very much such as rivers or streams. They are lands near bodies of water.
The sediments in swamps mostly consist of very dark brown mud which was created due to the water. |
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| The continental slope and rise is the continental rise which is an underwater feature found between the continental slope and the abyssal plain. This feature can be found all around the world, and it represents the last stage in the boundary line between the continents and the deepest part of the ocean. |
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Deltas are a type of landform which is most of the time created at the mouth of a river or a stream where water most likely to flow.
Sediment deposition which water carries the sediments in rivers. |
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Beaches and barrier islands are types of areas which sand creates and have bodies of water surrounding it.
The types of sediments that are found in these areas are sand and sandstone. |
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| Abyssal plains are flat or very gently sloping areas in the oceans basin floor. They are one of the most of Earth's flattest and smoothest places on Earth. |
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The continental shelf is the perimeter all around each continent together with coastal plain.
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This is a coral reef which contains different types of nutrients found on the floor of an ocean.
The type of sediment found are algae in coral reefs. |
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