Sites of deposition of placer minerals
- Created by: Brad_ers_B
- Created on: 27-05-15 15:56
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- Sites of deposition of placer minerals
- Meander bends
- Current velocity is fastest on outside and slowest on inside
- Erosion on outside, Deposition on inside to form a point bar
- Plunge pools
- Upstream of projections
- Hard rock like a dyke juts upward
- Downstream of confluences
- Fast flowing tributary joining slower flowing river
- Mid-channel sandbar can form
- On beaches
- Meander bends
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