2006-12-26 15:37:20 · 13 answers · asked by Coffee...EWW 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
my house.
2006-12-26 15:40:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is moved by water or wind. Normally, it will find its way to low spots or is washed into rivers and either into lakes (called eutrophication - meaning that the lake is getting shallower and will eventually disappear) or into the ocean. The Mississippi Delta is a huge pile of mud in the Gulf of Mexico from erosion. Desert sands are from erosion and they are deposited by wind and water but without much water don't move very fast. The beautiful sand dunes along the shores of lake Michigan are slowly being blown and washed away. We have found sand in the air from Africa blown across the whole Atlantic ocean onto the east coast (New York, Virginia, etc.) Once it settles into the ocean, plate tectonics cause it to be slowly swallowed into the Earth
2006-12-26 15:55:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It collects in rivers, lakes and oceans if the erosion is cause by water. Look at the mississippi delta, all that soil was moved there by erosion. Wind erosion will just move the particles to other places nearby.
2006-12-26 15:46:33 · answer #3 · answered by novae2 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on the type of erosion. For example, wind erosion in the Sahara Desert can send dust all around the northern hemisphere. Water erosion can send debris to the bottom of the ocean.
2006-12-26 15:57:02 · answer #4 · answered by Bernard B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most of it ends up in the ocean. Erosion caused by water takes the dirt to the ocean or to lake bottoms. Erosion caused by wind carries it over to the oceans where it is dropped. Considering that oceans cover more than 75% of the earth, they cannot be filled up.
2006-12-26 15:46:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It goes to river beds thereby making the water level rising and thereby causing floods. Also some of the eroded soil may land near trees, there by pushing the tree out of the soil and the tree will be uprooted.
2006-12-26 17:54:05 · answer #6 · answered by siabros 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It usually travels through rivers coming out and forming floodplains - which have been very important farming areas for humans over the years(e.g. Egypt), or it is washed out to sea where the organic component is consumed by the different plankton and algae. The mineral deposits left help to form the sand which we see on beaches.
2006-12-26 15:57:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it can go anywhere, it really depends. Rivers carry away tons of sediment. Sometimes the sediment can become compact again and be formed into rocks again. it just needs the right conditions.
2006-12-30 09:08:56 · answer #8 · answered by Sam's jam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
@..soil when undergo erotion goes to the river...this case is when there is heavy rains and huge amound of erotion..in the other case of small erotion soil just get collected at some corner
2006-12-26 15:48:29 · answer #9 · answered by THE MAN 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eventually, into a water supply.
2006-12-26 15:45:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Down to the bottom of the slope.
2006-12-26 15:45:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋