fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by sediments....
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rocks) through lithification. Sediments are most often transported by water (fluvial processes), but also wind (aeolian processes) and glaciers. Beach sands...
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fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by sediments....
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sediments well sorted. Aeolian – Processes due to wind activity. Often in deserts and coastal regions and well sorted, large scale cross-beds Fluvial –...
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floodplain. Because of the manner in which they form, fluvial terraces are underlain by fluvial sediments of highly variable thickness. River terraces are...
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Glossary of landforms (section Fluvial landforms)
erosion Wind gap – Topographic gap made by a former waterway Fluvial – Sediment processes associated with rivers and streamsPages displaying short descriptions...
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Stream (redirect from Fluvial landforms of streams)
elements may be an issue. Aqueduct (water supply) Environmental flow Fluvial sediment processes Head cut Playfair's Law River ecosystem Rock-cut basin Tidal stream...
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that is reworked by fluvial processes tends to have more poorly sorted sediment as compared to sediment sorted by only Aeolian processes because loess particles...
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River delta (redirect from Deltaic sediment)
between watershed processes that supply sediment, and receiving basin processes that redistribute, sequester, and export that sediment. The size, geometry...
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Pelagic sediment or pelagite is a fine-grained sediment that accumulates as the result of the settling of particles to the floor of the open ocean, far...
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