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What is the largest sediment that can transported into a stream?
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What is the total sediment load transported by a stream?
carrying power
Wind transported sediment are called?
Aeolian deposits.
What rock forms when sediment is transported and then compressed?
igneous rock
How sediment control erosion?
Typically, when the earth's surface is exposed to the impacts of rainfall, there is an increase in the volume and velocity of runoff. This sets off a chain reaction that results in the transport and deposition of sediment, reduced stream capacity, and ultimately increased stream scour and flooding.
What causes a river to deposit sediment?
Most sediment washes or falls into a river as a result of mass movement and runoff. Other sediment erodes from the bottom or sides of the river. Wind can also drop sediment into the water. Hope I helped! -DorkyGeek77
What is a streams bed load?
Sediment that is carried by a stream along the bottom of its channel.
When the velocity of a stream suddenly decreases the sediment being transported undergoes an increase in?
Deposition, whereby the sediment load being transported is dropped.
What is the total sediment load transported by a stream?
carrying power
When the sediment is transported down a mountain and along a stream we are seeing the conservation of?
matter
When sediment is transported down a mountain and along a stream you are seeing the conservation of?
matterMatterdensitymattermatter
What sediment is transported down a mountain and along a stream we are seeing the conservation of?
Matter
Which sediment is the largest that could be carried by a stream flowing at a velocity of 100cmsec?
sand
How can sediment transported in a stream cause abrasion?
water can cause abrasion as rock's bumpinto and scrape each other as they are moved by waves and rivers.
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 the largest piece of sediment?
A boulder is the largest piece of sediment.
Does bed load constitute the highest percentage of the annual sediment load moved by a stream?
Bed load typically makes up a small percentage (10-20%) of the total sediment load moved by a stream annually. Most sediment is transported in suspension as suspended load or dissolved load in the water column. Bed load refers to larger particles like sand and gravel that are rolled or pushed along the stream bed by the flow of water.
Is the water in a stream called sediment?
No, the solids the water carries is the sediment.
