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Sediment can travel through various processes such as erosion, transportation by water, wind, or ice, and deposition. Water is a significant agent in sediment transport, carrying particles downstream in rivers, streams, and oceans. Wind can also transport sediment through processes like saltation and suspension, while glaciers can move sediment through glacial flow and deposition.
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What is the plural of sediment?
Sediments is the plural of sediment
What moves sediment?
Sediment can be moved by various agents such as wind, water, ice, and gravity. Wind can transport sediment particles in the air, water can carry sediment along in rivers and oceans, ice can transport sediment in glaciers, and gravity can cause sediment to move downslope in the form of landslides or rockfalls.
When sediment is pressed together and cemented the sediment becomes?
rock.
What is the total quantity of sediment carried by a river called?
The total quantity of sediment carried by a river is called its sediment load. This includes both suspended sediment (particles floating in the water) and bedload (particles rolling or sliding along the riverbed).
Which it not a sediment transporting agent?
Wind is not a sediment transporting agent.
What type of sediment can travel the furthest?
Very fine silt will travel the furthest.
Why is sediment deposited in coastal areas?
The sediment is washed into the sea by runoff from the land, especially by rivers and streams. Most of this sediment does not travel very far offshore before settling.
Was ist ein Sediment?
Was ist ein Sediment = what is a sediment
What is the plural of sediment?
Sediments is the plural of sediment
How do you calculate dry density from weight of wet sediment?
To calculate dry density from the weight of wet sediment, you need to first determine the volume of the wet sediment. You can do this by dividing the weight of the wet sediment by the bulk density of the sediment. Once you have the volume of the wet sediment, you can then calculate the dry density by dividing the weight of the wet sediment by the volume of the wet sediment.
What will come out of sediment if you squeezed it?
Water and sediment.
How is sediment?
The sediment transport by the rock cycle
How do glaciers deposit sediment?
Its deposits sediment by picking the sediment up which is called plucking.(weathering)
Wind transported sediment are called?
Wind transported sediment is known as "aeolian sediment."
What is the quantity of sediment carried by a river?
sediment load
What cn be found in sediment rocks?
Fossils and sediment
When does a sediment deposit the sediment it is carrying?
When a glacier melts it deposits the sediment it eroded from the land, creating various landforms.
