Weathered materials have been moved from their original location to new locations by one or more of the transportation agencies, viz., water, wind, gravity and glacier and deposited to form transported soil. Such deposits are further classified depending on the mode of transportation causing the deposit. For example, soils that are carried and deposited by river is called alluvial deposits, soils carried by wind and subsequently deposited are designated as aeolian deposits, gravity deposits are termed talus and the land formed after a glacier has receded is called a till plain.
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