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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?
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What is water flowing over land carrying particles of sediment?
Runoff is water flowing over land that carries particles of sediment.
What is the name given to the rocks and particles the river carries?
Sediment load
A rivers current carries sediments into the ocean. Which sediment size will most likely be deposited in deeper water farthest from the shore?
The largest sediment will end up in deeper water.This image should help
How does Delta form?
As a river flows it picks up sediment and carries it away. When the river reaches the ocean the sediments deposited, over time a delta forms.
Is the water in a stream called sediment?
No, the solids the water carries is the sediment.
Moving water carries sediment small particles of soil sand and gravel?
True. However the exact size of the particles that water can carry depend on the flow velocity (the higher the velocity, the larger the material that can be transported).
What is the sediment a river carries called?
It's called transportation.
What carries the sediment away?
Wind, water, glaciers, and gravity are capable or transporting sediment.
What carries away sediment?
Wind, water, glaciers, and gravity are capable or transporting sediment.
The sediment that a stream carries is called what?
swiggityswag
What is the load of the Nile?
The sediment and silt etc that it carries.
What is the load that a stream of desitemn carries called?
sediment
