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What is sediment carried by the river that collect's at the rivers mouth called?
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∙ 13y ago
The sediment itself is called silt, and it often is deposited at the mouth of rivers and forms a landform called a river delta.
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What is the material carried by rivers to the ocean is called?
Silt and Sediment.
What are two sources of the sediment carried by rivers?
Mass movement and runoff.
Since humans have been present what is the amount of sediment carried by rivers?
Stayed about the same.
When rivers slow down they drop sediment in a process called?
ice
What is the materials carried by a river known as?
load
What is water call if collects in rivers and streams and oceans?
I believe it is called Runnoff...
Water that flows across land and collects in rivers streams and the ocean is called?
Runoff
What material is carried along the river bed?
Mature rivers carry large amounts of sediment along their lengths. This helps to shape the land and produce fertile farm lands.
How were the plains and lowlands created?
the erosion of the shield regions created the rest of each continent. rivers and glaciers carried eroded material, called sediment, intoancient seas. there, it accumulated into thickbeds that slowly solidified intosedimentry rock.
Where are rock sediments usually deposited in nature mean?
Boulders fracture into large rocks. Ice, thawing, and wind break apart the rock even more until it is sediment. Sediment gets picks up by streams and rivers. As sediment is compacted, it again begins to form rock.Interesting fact: Sediment from the Appalachian Mountains in the east have been found in cliff faces of the Rocky Mountains in the west, carried there by streams and rivers.
Where can sediment accumulate?
Sediment can accumulate at the mouths of rivers, usually in the form of deltas.
Water from precipitation that flows across land and collects in rivers and streams?
I believe that would be called RUNOFF water.
