erosion
Sediment
it is a levee
Measure of a river's channel efficiency (its ability to move water and sediment)
The dumping of sediment as the gradient of the river channel gets less.
As a river deposits sediment on the inside of a meander and erodes the outside of the meander, the meander migrates toward the outside edge
Levee
Levee
It is sediment transported by a river that becomes too heavy to be in suspension and thus sinks
That is called, a delta.
When a stream floods, it deposits much of the sediment that it carries onto its floodplain
at the outside of the bend
deposition upstream from the dam; channel downcutting below