Deposition The rocks or sediment being dropped in a new location
Nile River delta in Egypt
Name the forces: Weather or break rock.. Erode or carry rock… Deposit rock in a new location.. The list is similar for each!!!
Navajo sandstone shows timeless weathering. Paria Canyon - Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area, Bureau of Land Management, Arizona, Colorado Plateau.
Badlands at sunset showing results of weathering and erosion
Badlands, clay hills worn away by weathering and erosion
The Grand Canyon
Large granite rocks on beach amidst tropical trees. Republic of Seychelles, Africa.
Mount McKinley, Denali National Park, Alaska.
Navajo sandstone in detail. Colorado Plateau, Utah/Arizona.
An Aletsch glacier in Switzerland.
Glacier Bay, Alaska.
Navajo sandstone shows patterns of wind erosion. Paria Canyon - Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area, Bureau of Land Management, Arizona, Colorado Plateau
Weathered swirls of canyon rock. Colorado Plateau, Slot Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Utah.
Tree roots growing into rock.
Glacier; grooves carved during ice age by rocks at bottom
Glacier-carved mountain top
Detail of striated patterns on rock during a cloudy, winter day. Zion National Park, Utah.
Glacier Groves
Glacial moraine
Mushroom rock at sunset looms precariously next to water. Puerto Ballandra near LaPaz, Baja.
The Indus River near Mohenjodero, Pakistan.
The Colorado River.
The Yukon River from the air, Canada.
Colorado River canyons in Utah
Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California
Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado. Complex dunes attain a maximum height of 800 feet above the floor of the valley. Sangre de Cristo Range is in the background.
Mineral-rich water evaporates and forms gypsum sand that the wind blows into huge dunes. Such dunes are constantly moving and changing their shape
The sand forms a pedestal on which the plants can survive after the dune in which they first grew blows away.