streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river (bathymetry) and is confined within a channel, or the banks of the waterway. Usually, the bed does...
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A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a...
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The term bed load or bedload describes particles in a flowing fluid (usually water) that are transported along the stream bed. Bed load is complementary...
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Stream load is a geologic term referring to the solid matter carried by a stream (Strahler and Strahler, 2006). Erosion and bed shear stress continually...
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Placer mining (/ˈplæsər/) is the mining of stream bed deposits for minerals. This may be done by open-pit mining or by various surface excavating equipment...
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During dry seasons the water table may fall below the level of the stream's bed, causing it to dry out. Exploitation of chalk aquifers as a domestic...
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silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings...
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carbonate ions. The surface water of chalk streams is commonly described as "gin clear". The channel bed consists of angular flint gravel derived from...
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Meander (redirect from Meandering Stream)
stream the width must be taken into consideration. The bankfull width is the distance across the bed at an average cross-section at the full-stream level...
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pebbles, sand, silt, and clay. These particles make up the bed load of the stream. Stream competence was originally simplified by the “sixth-power-law...
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