The geosphere is made up of all the rock, sediment, soil, lava, and magma on Earth. The geosphere includes the Earth's very hot metallic core, the mantle formed of magma, and the rocky crust. How big is the geosphere? The geosphere extends from Earth's rocky surface all the way to ...
A cape is a large, narrow, landform that extends into a body of water. Capes can be formed by tidal erosion, the buildup of sediment, glacial and volcanic activity, and by the receding of water to expose land. Why is Florida a peninsula and not a cape? Florida is too large and flat...
Japan, theMarianas, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, and New Zealand. The line separates the basaltic volcanic islands of the central and eastern Pacific from the islands of the broad western Pacific margin, which are formed mainly of metamorphosed rocks, sediment, and andesitic volcanic ...
(geology)sand, stones, mud, etc. carried by water or wind and left, for example, on the bottom of a lake, river, etc.TopicsGeographyc1 Word Origin Seesedimentin the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySeesedimentin the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English ...
Spits, which may be composed of sand or shingle, are formed by the longshore movement of sediment. They often are complexly curved, with acharacteristic recurved head(hook); this probably results from the refraction of waves around the spit's end. ...
(2001). Discharge was measured by depth/velocity transects in each reach using a vane wheel probe (Ho¨ntzsch probe ZS25, Waiblingen, Germany). The inorganic sediment load (mg/s) of each reach per sampling date was modelled as the combination of 'suspended inorganic matter' and 'discharge'...
(2) repeated volcanic eruptions in the ocean that continually lay down sediment, rock and ash until the land rises above the water's surface (e.g., Hawaii Islands), or (3) uplift of land due to movement of tectonic plates in the earth's crust and upper mantle (e.g., Galapagos ...
Formation and variation dynamics of western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) have always been an important subject of interest for Chinese meteorologists. However, geopotential height field indexes commonly used in current studies and operational services cannot accurately describe the evolution characteristics...
12. (Physical Geography) the bottom of a river or the sea 13. (plural) sediment or dregs, esp from coffee 14. (Building) chiefly Brit the floor of a room 15. (Cricket) cricket a. the area from the popping crease back past the stumps, in which a batsman may legally stand b. gr...
flood plain, floodplain - a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding dry land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, earth, land - the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over lan...