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How can you measure the amount of sediment that a stream or river carries?
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Get a giant net
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∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoIt's called the load.
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Is the water in a stream called sediment?
No, the solids the water carries is the sediment.
The sediment that a stream carries is called what?
swiggityswag
What is the load that a stream of desitemn carries called?
sediment
What happens to the size of the sediment a stream normally carries when it flows from a mountainous area to a flatter area?
The sediment size carried by the stream increases. EW
How will each type of sediment be deposited as the stream slows down if a stream carries a mixed sediment load that includes small pebbles particles of soil and grains of sand and dust?
Clay
What is the amount of water a stream carries?
Discarge
During a flood a river drops the largest pieces of its sediment on the floodplain close to its normal channel but why?
When a stream floods, it deposits much of the sediment that it carries onto its floodplain
What is a streams bed load?
Sediment that is carried by a stream along the bottom of its channel.
What is sediment that moves along the bed of a stream?
called a bed load its sediment that moves along the bed of a stream by rolling bouncing or sliding
What is a braiding stream?
A braided stream is a stream that has small channel capacity with respect to its sediment supply. Basically, there is not sufficient room within the stream valley to deposit all of the sediment and therefore, small islands of sediment form within the stream giving it a braided appearance. Braided streams generally occur at high gradients.
What is braided stream?
A braided stream is a stream that has small channel capacity with respect to its sediment supply. Basically, there is not sufficient room within the stream valley to deposit all of the sediment and therefore, small islands of sediment form within the stream giving it a braided appearance. Braided streams generally occur at high gradients.
What sediment an example of when it is along a stream?
erosion
