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What is a fertile sediment?
Alluvium
What is alluvium and how is it used?
Sediment deposited by flowing water
What type of soil is found in Ganga Brahmaputra basin?
the plain has a thick cover of alluvium. it has a very fertile soil...
Why is sand considered sediment?
Sand is sediment because it settles to the bottom of the water and gunks together. Sand is s very small grain.
Why are lands by the water more fertile?
First of all, The soil is absorbing the nutrients and minerals that the water erodes from the rocks in the body of water. Next, sediment from more fertile lands (for example, down a river from a mountain) are deposited on the riverbank.
What is a fertile sediment?
Alluvium
What is an example of fertile sediment?
no its a Alluvium
What do you call a fertile sediment deposited by a river?
The material deposited by a river is called sediment. The bits of organic debris such as leaves and stems is detritus. Sediment includes detritus, inorganic material such as pebbles, sand, clay and other rock bits.
What is ''alluvium ''and is it used?
Sediment deposited by flowing water
Match the term with its definition?
Delta - Mouth of a river Alluvium - Fertile sediment deposited by a river Meaner - Curve in a river Tributary - Stream that flows into a river -Apex- :)
What is alluvium and how is it used?
Sediment deposited by flowing water
What is the difference between old alluvium and new alluvium?
Alluvium refers to clay, silt, sand, gravel, or similar detrital material deposited by running water. New alluvium are these sediments that are being deposited right now and older alluvium refers to sediments that were deposited a short while before the new alluvium. For example, a 500 years ago some sediments were deposited in a stream bed and last year more sediments were deposited in that same stream bed. The 500 year old sediment would be older alluvium and the 1 year old sediment would be the younger alluvium.
Why northern plains are fertile?
There are a lot of river systems in North India .The area around these rivers are very fertile since they carry alluvium with them . Thus the northern plains are very fertile.
When alluvium accumulates as a long curving deposit of sediment on the inside of a stream meander it is called?
Point Bar
Why are northern plains primarily an agricultural belt?
due to large alluvium deposits and fertile soil next to the rivers
Why are northern plain primarily agricultural belt?
due to large alluvium deposits and fertile soil next to the rivers
What type of soil is found in Ganga Brahmaputra basin?
the plain has a thick cover of alluvium. it has a very fertile soil...
