What features of the caves illustrate the effects of erosion and deposition?
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The material moved by erosion is sediment. Deposition occurs when the agents (wind or water) of erosion lay down sediment. Deposition changes the shape of the land. Erosion, weathering, and deposition are at work everywhere on Earth.
The features of the caves illustrate the effects of erosion and deposition are the creation of a cave arch, formation of cracks, formation of different structures, enlarging the cracks, removing rocks and other sediments, etc.
Erosion is a phenomenon that removes/wears away soil, rocks, or dissolves materials from one location of the Earth’s crust and then transports the same by natural forces such as wind or water to another location where it gets deposited. The action of erosion creates boreholes by which caves are formed. Whenever water breaks through the back of the cave, it creates an arch and the continuous pounding of waves causes the top of the arch to fall and leave nothing but rock columns.
Deposition is the laying down of sediments that are carried by the wind or flowing through the water. The sediment can be transported as pebbles, sand, and mud, or as salts dissolved in water. Groundwater carries the dissolved minerals and it gets deposited. The groundwater deposits these into different types of structures. Deposition basically changes the shape of the land or rock as it occurs when the transporters of erosion (i.e. wind and water) lay down the sediments.
Thus, the creation of a cave arch, formation of cracks, enlarging of cracks, formation of different structures, etc. are the features of the caves that illustrates the effects of erosion and deposition.
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