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Silt is carried downriver on the fast currents until it reaches the slow to nonmoving waters, where the silt forms a delta, which collects more silt.
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What is the difference between ponds lakes and estuaries?
Estuaries are flooded valleys at a river's mouth. Deltas are prograding wedges of sediment at a river's mouth. Estuaries may develop into deltas overtime as more sediment builds up and out at the river's mouth. Estuary is a zone of mixing of fresh & saline water.........but delta is made of fresh water's silt near a sea.....
What is the fine mud carried by rivers called?
The soil that is deposited by a river to form landforms such as river bars and river deltas is called silt. A river delta is the name of the landform that is created the mouth of a river.
How does silt changes the river?
Over time the silt changes the shape of the river as it is formed into islands, sandbars, and river bends
What is rocks and soil recently deposited by a river?
the answer is silt
What is the fine soil deposited at the mouth of a river?
The soil that is deposited by a river to form landforms such as river bars and river deltas is called silt. A river delta is the name of the landform that is created the mouth of a river.
Why is the river yellow called yellow?
The River is called The Yellow River because of the yellow silt that it carries throughout Northern China.
Where did the soil in the Indus river valley receive its silt from?
It received it's rich silt from the Indus River. When it flooded it produced an nutrient enriched mud called silt that was good for farming and agriculture in the Indus River Valley.
What happens when a river leaves silt on the land?
It leaves silt that builds up the land around the river banks.
What is the name of the river has large amounts of yellow silt?
I would say the Yellow river in China has large amounts of yellow silt, thus the name of the river is the Yellow river
Land formed at mouth of river by silt?
Land formed by silt deposited by a river is called a delta.
A river delta is made of what?
silt
In a river what is carried by suspension?
silt
