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- noun geology
Sediment that is carried along the bottom of a river or stream, rather than in the current
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Examples
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Leopold and colleague William Emmett conducted bedload research along the river from 1967 through 1980.
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Braided channels tend to be wide and shallow because bedload materials are often coarse (sands and gravels) and non-cohesive.
Fluvial landforms 2008
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This ancient river, which is characterized by a thick sequence of coarse bedload material (coarse sand and gravel) was at some places more than 100 m wide, whereas the current river is only 1-5 m wide.
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With additional research - more field studies combined with experiments and theory - I think a more robust linkage of seismic noise to bedload transport could be obtained.
Wired Top Stories Brian Romans 2011
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Although it is possible that both water and bedload contribute to the observed shaking, our results indicate that bedload is the dominant component of the seismic source.
Wired Top Stories Brian Romans 2011
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We are measuring energy transferred from the river to the bed due to either fluid turbulence or impacting bedload particles.
Wired Top Stories Brian Romans 2011
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The material carried by rivers can be subdivided into the sediment rolling and bouncing along the bed (bedload), particles carried in the water (suspended load), and material that is in solution (dissolved load).
Wired Top Stories Brian Romans 2011
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See this summarizes their study using seismometers to estimate bedload.
Wired Top Stories Brian Romans 2011
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