Month: June 2021

Depositional landforms of sea waves Important depositional landforms of sea waves are sea beaches, bars, barriers, splits, offshore, etc. Beaches and Dunes Beaches Beaches are characteristic of shorelines that are dominated by deposition but may occur as patches along even the rugged shores. Most of the sediment making up the beaches comes from land carried … Read more

WAVES AND CURRENTS Coastal processes are the most dynamic and hence most destructive. Some of the changes along the coasts take place very fast. At one place, there can be erosion in one season and deposition in another. Most of the changes along the coasts are accomplished by waves. When waves break, the water is … Read more

Cirque Cirques are the most common landforms in glaciated mountains. The cirques quite often are found at the heads of glacial valleys. The accumulated ice cuts these cirques while moving down the mountain tops. They are deep, long, and wide troughs or basins with very steep concave to vertically dropping high walls at its head … Read more

The rocks debris is transferred down the slopes due to gravity. It also suggests that the debris is not influenced by Air, water, or Ice to move from place to place. But the debris moves the water, ice, and Air. The mass movements also called slope movement or mass wasting are both slow and fast … Read more

Weathering Definition The earth materials such as rocks are subjected to the action of elements of weather and climate such as Ice, water, wind etc. These elements of weather act individually or together to affect earth materials such as rock and reduce them to fragments. Altogether, It is defined as the decomposition of rocks by … Read more