Author Question: Briefly explain how a pediment is formed. What will be an ideal ... (Read 19 times)

saliriagwu · **on:** Jul 15, 2018

Briefly explain how a pediment is formed. What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Briefly explain how mesas and buttes form. What will be an ideal response?

yotaSR5 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 15, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Pediments are erosional features developed on bedrock, formed in association with gradual erosion of
mountains by streams and sheet flooding and subsequent burial of their remnants in the eroded
sediment.

Answer to Question 2

A nearly horizontal resistant layer of rock is breached by weathering and erosion, allowing the
underlying less resistant layers to be rapidly eroded. The flat-topped, steep-sided erosional remnants
are mesas, and further erosion leaves the pillar-like structures called buttes