sediment load
Sediment is dirt, rocks, and sand carried by a river.
A deposit that forms where a river leaves a mountain range is called an alluvial fan. This fan-shaped deposit is created as the river slows down and deposits sediment and debris that it has carried from the mountains.
The process by which the material carried by a stream or river settles or is dropped is called deposition. This occurs when the velocity of the water decreases, causing it to lose the energy needed to carry sediment, which then settles to the riverbed.
When sediment is deposited outside the banks of a river, it forms landforms known as levees. Levees are elevated embankments that help to prevent flooding by containing the river within its channel. They are created through the accumulation of sediments carried by the river during times of high flow.
The three ways of river erosion are hydraulic action (force of water on the river banks), abrasion (wearing down of the riverbed by sediment), and attrition (erosion caused by rocks and sediment carried by the river rubbing against each other).
sediment load
sediment load
Sediment is dirt, rocks, and sand carried by a river.
sediment
By a river? Deposition.
The sediment itself is called silt, and it often is deposited at the mouth of rivers and forms a landform called a river delta.
Large boulders and smaller rocks can be carried by a river. When rocks and sediment are displaced, it's called erosion.
The rock material carried away by a river is called sediment.
It is called a delta
Sediment and small rocks are carried down in the river and are deposited.
That is called a delta. Deltas form when sediment carried by the river is deposited due to reduced water flow or when it meets another body of water, causing the sediment to settle and accumulate over time.
Large boulders and smaller rocks can be carried by a river. When rocks and sediment are displaced, it's called erosion.