fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by sediments....

rocks) through lithification. Sediments are most often transported by water (fluvial processes), but also wind (aeolian processes) and glaciers. Beach sands...

fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by sediments....

sediments well sorted. Aeolian – Processes due to wind activity. Often in deserts and coastal regions and well sorted, large scale cross-beds Fluvial –...

erosion Wind gap – Topographic gap made by a former waterway Fluvial – Sediment processes associated with rivers and streamsPages displaying short descriptions...

floodplain. Because of the manner in which they form, fluvial terraces are underlain by fluvial sediments of highly variable thickness. River terraces are...

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...

the watershed processes that supply sediment and the watershed processes that redistribute, sequester, and export the supplied sediment into the receiving...

years, which form focal points for high rates of fluvial and hillslope processes and thus long-term sediment production. Features of deeper mantle dynamics...

these processes include moraines, kames, kettles, eskers, drumlins, plains, and proglacial lakes. Glaciofluvial deposits or Glacio-fluvial sediments consist...

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...

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...

(1994). "Deep sea processes of sediment transport and deposition". In Pye, K. (ed.). Sediment Transport and Depositional Processes. London: Blackwell...

the keeper of the winds. Aeolian processes are those processes of erosion, transport, and deposition of sediments that are caused by wind at or near...

collective name for processes that cause these particles to settle in place. The particles that form a sedimentary rock are called sediment, and may be composed...

normal process of fluvial meandering. Either a river or stream forms a sinuous channel as the outer side of its bends are eroded away and sediments accumulate...

directly by glaciers, and secondary deposits, reworked by fluvial transport and other processes. Till is a form of glacial drift, which is rock material...

head and it marks an important boundary between hillslope processes and fluvial processes. The channel head is the most upslope part of a channel network...

Fluvial seismology is the application of seismological methods to understand river processes, such as discharge, erosion, and streambed evolution. Flowing...

Interior Plains by strong winds. Sediment transport within the Interior Plains occurs primarily by aeolian and fluvial processes. Due to climate change, the...

is one of the three layers of the fluvial sediment transportation system. The bed load consists of the larger sediment which is transported by saltation...

applied to the entire range of processes that result in the formation of sedimentary rock, from initial erosion through sediment transport and settling to...

categories. Rounding of sediment particles can indicate the distance and time involved [citation needed] in the transportation of the sediment from the source...

into the porous sediment. Wadi deposits are thus usually mixed gravels and sands. These sediments are often altered by eolian processes. Over time, wadi...

downstream through processes resembling those in point bars of meandering rivers and can build up a floodplain. The quantity of sediments in a floodplain...

stream a muddy color. Rouse number Sediment Sediment transport Wash load Knighton, David. (1998). Fluvial Forms & Processes: A New Perspective, London: Arnold...

erosional processes, alluvial, containing well sorted, rounded clasts and very-fine grained suspended sediment deposited by fluvial processes. Most LS...

Alluvial fans have also been found on Mars and Titan, showing that fluvial processes have occurred on other worlds. Some of the largest alluvial fans are...

an active fluvial channel and the resulting formation of a palaeochannel can be the result of tectonic processes, geomorphologic processes, anthropogenic...

finer-grained sediments (such as sand, silt, or clay). The larger fragments within conglomerate are called clasts, while the finer sediment surrounding...