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How can you measure the amount of sediment that a stream or river carries?
Get a giant net
What is the sediment a river carries called?
It's called transportation.
What is the river Niles load?
The sediment etc that the current carries.
What is the name given to the rocks and particles the river carries?
Sediment load
How a fossil forms in sediment?
When a river flows into a lake or ocean, the sediments that the river carries settle to the bottom. Layers of sediment may covor the dead organism.
The amount of sediment in a river is called?
it's called the river's load.
Flow regime refers to?
A flow regime of a river is essentially a statistical summary of how flows in a river vary over time. the amount of water and the rate of flowing water a river carries.
What is the amount and size of the sediment that a river can move?
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When water from a river carries sediment or tiny pieces of sand rock or soil it leaves some of the sediment along the banks of the riverthis process is called?
Deposition
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
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
What is meant by the rivers load?
the amount of sediment a river is carrying during flow
