Wind causes waves to be produced in the water. These can cause erosion of the coast. Wind can also cause material to be transported, for example by longshore drift, which is where sediment moves along ...

Researchers have discovered huge landforms deep beneath the North Sea that suggest the region was swallowed by a giant ice sheet toward the middle of the last ice age. The scientists captured these ...

The process and impact of rejuvenation is explored through the use of specific examples along with detailed graphics to explain the fluvial processes of erosion, transportation and deposition. ABC ...

Sedimentary rocks are the archives of environmental conditions and ancient planetary surface processes that led to their formation. Reconstructions of Earth’s past surface behaviour from the physical ...

In geography, spit is a landform made by the deposition of sand by the movement of tides. Spits are narrow and elongated—one end is attached to the mainland and the other is out in open water. A spit ...