Deposition and Depositional Landforms?

Formation and Various Types of Depositional

Landforms.

★ On the earth’s surface, landforms are natural features that make the earth beautiful. These
landforms include mountains, hills, valleys, and other shoreline features. The geological process
in which sediments, soil, rocks, sand, and pebbles are added to the landforms and increase its
size, is known as a deposition.

✓Deposition occurs when wave velocities slow, or when ocean currents slow due to
encountering frictional forces such as the sea bed, other counter currents and vegetation.

✓The major deposition landforms are beaches, spits and bars.

✓The depositional landforms usually occur when the accumulation of sediments and sand is
more than that is removed. The rate of accumulation is high and most common where
constructive waves are frequent, or quantity of sand is much more.

   ★ Formation of Depositional Landforms★

» When rocks and cliffs are being    continuously weathered, eroded, and moved, these
generate a huge material that needs to be deposited or laid down somewhere else. There are
processes in which sediments or rocks get transported by flowing ice or water, wind or gravity,
and they are deposited on the landforms such as glacial moraines, deltas, beaches, dunes, and
salt domes.

        There are 10 types of depositional   

                            Landforms
       
    1.Glacier deposits
    2.Moraines
    3.Drumlin
    4.Coastal deposits
    5.Beaches
    6.Ridges and runnels
    7.Spits
    8.Dunes
    9.Bars
    10.Rivers deposits