Biology, 27.09.2019 16:00, sophiateaches053

River deltas are formed by erosion created by seafloor spreading caused by the movement of tectonic plates areas of infertile, rocky soil

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River deltas are formed by deposition of sediments.

The river deltas appear in the area where the river enters another river, lake, sea, ocean, estuary, which are not able to take away all of the sediments that the rivers is bringing with it.

Because all of the sediments can be taken away by the other bodies of water, the river is depositing the sediments at and around the connection part. As the sediments keep coming, all of the surrounding area will be covered with them, so the river will form a delta because the sediments will be blocking the free flow of its waters, thus it will spread into a triangular shape at its entry.

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Mantle convection is the slow creepingmotion of earth's solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior to the planet's surface.[1][2] the earth's surface lithosphere, which rides atop the asthenosphere (the two components of the upper mantle), is divided into a number of plates that are continuously being created and consumed at their opposite plate boundaries. accretion occurs as mantle is added to the growing edges of a plate, associated with seafloor spreading. this hot added material cools down by conduction and convection of heat. at the consumption edges of the plate, the material has thermally contracted to become dense, and it sinks under its own weight in the process of subduction usually at an ocean trench.[3]this subducted material sinks through the earth's interior. some subducted material appears to reach the lower mantle,[4] while in other regions, this material is impeded from sinking further, possibly due to a phase transition from spinel to silicate perovskiteand magnesiowustite, an endothermic reaction.[5]the subducted oceanic crust triggers volcanism, although the basic mechanisms are varied. volcanism may occur due to processes that add buoyancy to partially melted mantle causing an upward flow due to a decrease in density of the partial melt.secondary forms of convection that may result in surface volcanism are postulated to occur as a consequence of intraplate extension[6] and mantle plumes.[7]it is because the mantle can convect that the tectonic plates are able to move around the earth's surface.[8]mantle convection seems to have been much more active during the hadean period, resulting in gravitational sorting of heavier molten iron, and nickel elements and sulphides in the core, and lighter silicate minerals in the mantle.

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