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What is the main ways sediment enters a river are mass movement?
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The main ways sediment enters a river are mass movement and?
Runoff
What are the main ways sediment enters a river?
On flood planes the water erodes away the banks of the river. The Eroded dirt and sediment fall into the river.
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 are the main parts of a river system?
The main parts of a river system is Tributaries, Watersheds, and Divides.
What are the three main parts of a river stream?
sediment,bank and bed
What is naturally formed heavy sediment deposits along a river?
Heavy sediment can form sandbars wherever the current is less than the main flow. River floods can remove the sandbar due to the stronger flow.
What is an anabranch?
An anabranch is a diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream.
When a stream deposits sediment what can happen to the land?
River sediments are deposited where gravity and friction acting on the sediments overcomes the force of the moving water. Often, this is on the inner bend of a meandering river, where water speed is the slowest, or at the mouth of the river where it enters a larger body of water.
The main river of Bangladesh it start the word you?
I am puzzled by your question in the use of the word you. The main river of Bangladesh is the Brahmaputra, which becomes the Jamuna River as soon as it enters Bangladesh. It then becomes the Padma River when the Ganges joins it some 72kms west of Dhaka. It then becomes the Padma-Meghna river when they join at Chandpur.
During the rock cycle rocks get broken apart by weathering carried along by erosion and eventually deposited in a body of water What happens next?
It depends on where the sediment is deposited. Not all sediment is deposited in a body of water. If the transport mechanism is a stream then the sediment can be deposited on the flood plain of the river or in a lake. If the sediment is deposited on the flood plain it will do two things. 1) The sediment of the flood plain will eventually lithify and 2) The river will continue to down cut and after X number of years the flood plain will no longer be subject to the flood waters of the river. At this point it is classified as a terrace (a flood plain of the past that is no longer inundated by flood water). The cycle basically starts over at this point with weathering and erosion processes breaking down and transporting the terrace sediment back into the river. If the sediment is transported to a lake, a delta will form. As the sediment is deposited in the lake the main channel of the river will extend out into the lake, this lowers the gradient of the main channel which slows the flow of water through the channel and allows for the deposition of sediment in the channel. When the main channel fills with sediment and no longer has the ability to channel all of the water from the river, dis-tributary channels will form these dis- tributary channels migrate across the delta transporting sediment as they go. Lithification takes place in the lower layers of the delta but this lithified sediment is only subjected to erosion during very high flows that are capable of transporting the sediment that covers the lithified layers.Basically, no matter where the sediment is deposited, it is subject to the processes which weathered and transported it to its current location.Wow really? these guys are just looking for a basic answer not an essay
What are facts about tributaries?
When other rivers or lakes join to the main river . It is called the tributary .
What is the first step of forming a delta?
A river delta begins to form when deposition of sediment and vegetation build up at the river mouth. The main river becomes split into many smaller streams. Examples can be seen on the Nile delta, the Mississippi Delta. With the world's largest delta being on the River Ganges.
