Tell how erosion can be reduced in high-risk areas. Explain the problems that develop when people develop land prone to erosion. Tell some ways in which natural resources can be conserved. Explain how ocean and air currents benefit plant and animal life. Please note that weathering and erosion are two different things.
Many people mistakenly say erosion when they really mean weathering.
Potholes may form. River deposits Soil that is eroded and transported by streams will eventually be deposited as sandbars in streams, as pointbars on the inside curve of a meandering stream, on floodplains and levees , or at the mouth of the river in a delta . In mountainous areas, at the break in slope between the mountain front and the flat valley, running water decreases rapidly in veolcity as it reaches the flat valley, and sediment is deposited as an alluvial fan . Today, much eroded soil will be trapped behind dams across rivers, filling reservoirs. Loss of sediment transport to the coast also depletes beaches of sand, and can lead to accelerated beach erosion.