What Is the Most Important Difference Between a Talus Deposit

question 45

Multiple Choice

What is the most important difference between a talus deposit and an alluvial fan?

• A) size of the clasts
• B) climate of formation. Alluvial fans form in desert regions; talus forms in all climates.
• C) the agent that moves clasts: water, for alluvial fans; gravity, for talus
• D) degree of weathering of clasts. In alluvium, materials have undergone extensive chemical weathering; in talus, clasts have undergone little chemical weathering.

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