How do ancient sites get buried?

Question

I’ve been traveling around the UK, visiting lots of ancient sites, and I don’t understand how these places end up buried under so much dirt. I know that sometimes thousands of years pass between when something is abandoned and when it’s rediscovered, but how does that much dirt and debris cover things up over time? Can someone explain how this happens?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

Things get dusty and the dusty slowly builds up until it’s dirty and then dirty builds up until it’s caked in dirt and then suddenly all that stuff that’s caked in dirt becomes covered in dirt. Once it’s covered in dirt we call it the ground that we walk on.