Sediment Movement

 Sediment 

I didn't realize that I posted the wrong geo journal until Thursday last week so here is the geo journal for last week.

Living in Utah as an adult I didn't realize growing up just how much the dirt and dust gets moved around until now. Between the wind and rain, the soil here doesn't stand much of a chance unless it's got something on top of it to keep it in place. 

Pictures from left to right top to bottom:

The first picture is in my backyard where the ground has been eroded due to water and my dogs, there is little to no vegetation that grows here and the ground is sunbaked and dry.

The second picture is from a few years ago when my husband and I were driving from Florida to Idaho to help his family move. This picture is from a place called Zia Pueblo, just outside of Albuquerque New Mexico. I remember looking at this and wondering how the sand stayed in place and what could have shaped this plateau.

The third picture is of the layer of dirt the dogs have tracked in on my white floor. (St. Bernard isn't ours ) It had rained that day and when the floor was dry I had a small ant mound of dirt that I swept off my floor.

The final picture is on the side of my house where the wind has blown all of the topsoils away and has built it up against the fence, leaving the ground bare and vulnerable to water and snow.