These deposits form part of the money supply.

Due to the high sea level there was extensive accommodation space for sedimentation so that thick deposits could form.

Along tributary slopes, a deposit, head, forms the main sediment of latest age.

And just five million years ago, glacial deposits formed inside these depressions.

Given time, these deposits form much like how a stalactite takes shape in a cave, except in this case on a flat surface.

The deposit formed in a combination of syngenetic and diagenetic processes.

Sun and wind would act upon them, and new deposits would form over them.

Along the northern side slumped deposits form a pile along the base of the inner wall.

You see the deposits form concentric semicircles leading back to the volcanoes.

Other objectives will be to learn how mineral deposits form under such conditions and how to develop geothermal resources for energy.