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 Deposition of Clastics Land Environmen
Transport Deposition Character
Ice As ice melts No sorting
Wind As wind drops or dies Larger grains d
Rivers As water slows down e.g. energy of carry
Mountain range onto plains
River into lake or sea
Inside of river bend
Blockage/dam
When supply fails(rain stops)
The load carried by rivers includes the rock-waste supplied by many agents
The debris is transported in various ways.
Smaller particles are carried with the stream in suspension as suspended
load. The tendency to settle is being counterbalanced by eddies. Larger
particles skip along in a series of jumps - a process known as saltation.
Pebbies roll along the bottom. Larger blocks may movealong on a layer of
pebbles Which act like ball - bearings, This mode of transportation is called
bed load

As river velocity decreases, the bed load is the first to come to rest. With
continued -slackening of the flow the larger components as of the suspended
load are dropped, followed successively by finer and finer - particles. When
the stream begins to flow more vigorously the finer materials are the first to
move on again . The proportion of finer grain sizes tends to Increase
downstream.

The maximum amount of debris carried by a stream is called transporting

power or capacity.
The term Ioad is defined as the total weight of solid detritus transported
in unit time past the cross- section of the river at the point of observation . The
corresponding quantity of water that passes is called the discharge. The latter
includes also the material being transported in solution. This dissolved
materials is called Solution Load.
Annual estimates for the Mississippi are given below:
Millions of tons per annum
Solution Load 200
Suspension Load 500
Bed load 50
Total Load 750

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r-he.,propo'rti,on of sol;id to dii.@sol@ed load varies enorm.ous@. The chief
riverd bt the world tra,ns.fe r about 8, 000 rn i 1 l@ion tons, of rock-waste to
the sea eve n
about 30 pe rc@ n t @f th i i tota,l car ried i n sol@uti!on

Total load

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