depositional landforms examples
Jupiterimages/BananaStock/Getty Images. Depositional landforms are the visible evidence of processes that have deposited sediments or rocks after they were transported by flowing ice or water, wind or gravity. Examples include beaches, deltas, glacial moraines, sand dunes and salt domes.hese piles were carried for long distances by the movement of glaciers, then deposited when the ice melted. Drumlins are tear-shaped depositional landforms created by the compression of such rubble. When glaciers melt, they drop the rocks and other sediments they are carrying into the landscape.
Later, when the glaciers retreated leaving behind their freight of crushed rock and sand (glacial drift), they created characteristic depositional landforms. Examples include glacial moraines, eskers, and kames. Drumlins and ribbed moraines are also landforms left behind by retreating glaciers.The stone walls of New England contain many glacial erratics, rocks that were dragged by a glacier many miles from their bedrock origin. Moraine: Feature can be terminal (at the end of a glacier), lateral (along the sides of a glacier), or medial (formed by the emerger of lateral moraines from contributary glaciers). 2  Outwash fan: Braided stream flowing from the front end of a glacier.