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A boulder is the largest piece of sediment.
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What is the name of the process that breaks large pieces of rock into small piece of sediment?
its called weathering, or erosion
What is the name for windblown sediment?
What is the name for wind blown sediment
What rock can be changed into sediment by weathering and erosion?
Any and all rock can be changed into sediment by weathering and erosion.
How do sedimentary rock embed organisms?
When organisms died in a river or stream of some sort, they are covered in a layer of sediment, as time gos by the sediment hardens and is covered by another layer of sediment and so on.
What is Canada's largest land form?
The Canadian Shield is the largest natural landform in Canada. It is a large piece of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
What type of clastic sediment has the largest particle?
gravel
Which river has the worlds largest discharge of sediment?
The Ganges River ranks as the largest sediment river discharge in the world due to the elevation of the Himalayas from which it drains from. Ongoing glaciation of the region paired with the elevation work together to produce huge amounts of sediment.
Which sediment is the largest that could be carried by a stream flowing at a velocity of 100cmsec?
sand
What river has the world largest discharge of sediment?
Ganges, though there are others close, such as the Amazon.
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
When sediment settles on the bottom of a lake the largest pieces of rock settle last true or false?
no
What is the name of the process that breaks large pieces of rock into small piece of sediment?
its called weathering, or erosion
In general the largest piece of the IT budget is?
The server.
What is the earth's largest reserve of carbon?
the earths largest reserve of carborn are the following, Fossil fuels, soils sediment, aquatic ecosystem of oceans, plants and the animal biomass.
A rivers current carries sediments into the ocean. Which sediment size will most likely be deposited in deeper water farthest from the shore?
The largest sediment will end up in deeper water.This image should help
What is the detrital sediment sizes in order from smallest to largest?
Clay, Silt, Sand, Granule, Pebble, Cobble and Boulder.
Which rivers carry the most sediment?
The Brahmaputra of India and Tibet carries more sediment than any river in our world, including the "Big Muddy" Mississipi, the long Nile, or the river with the largest volume, the Amazon
