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Deposition
The process of laying down of sediments after its erosion.
It occurs when eroded materials stop moving and settle on a
surface, often forming layers over time.
Wind deposition Water deposition
Weak winds can form Sea waves move sand to other places
small sand dunes as that on the beach. where it deposits.
River can deposit a sandbar along its
banks.
When river carries sediments meet
Strong winds can form
a sea, they are deposited forming
large sand dunes as that in: delta as: Nile delta
Western desert in Egypt.
Rub’ Al Khali in the Arabian Peninsula.
Sand dunes (landform) are small hills Delta (landform) is a land shaped like
of sand in a desert or on top of a beach. a triangle / fan is formed when a
river enters a sea or an ocean.
Delta is a mass of mud and
sediments.
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