Transport

Transport is the movement of materials from one place to another thanks to the external geological agents.

It can be:

• Selective: The transfer depends on the size of the materials and the energy of the agents (wind and water).

• Rivers can transfer solid materials in different ways:

• Flotation: The less dense materials.
• Suspension: Equal density of water or a similar one.
• Saltation: It´s not a continous flow. The water will push the materials.
• Dissolution: The material dissolves and when the water disappears, it precipitates.
• Rolling or sweeping along: When it´s a round material

• Wind: Its transport ability is much lower than water, but in suspension it can transfer materials in big distances and spread them much further than water.

• Non-selective: Transport does not depend on materials sizes.

• Ice (glacier): Doesn´t allowed the materials touch the ground so everything is transport with the same speed, and when the ice melts, everything is deposited in the same way.

• Water (torrents): When the water strength is very big there´s no difference in size.