ILST 2655 Lecture 1: WEEK 6 SOILS & TERRAINS
15 Apr 2016
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River system: remove products of weathering, mass movements and erosion. Fluvial process distributes minerals and nutrition for plant growth. Volume of flow moving thru a given cross section of a stream in a given unit of time. Depending on where you will place people you will look at discharge or length. Action of exogenic process which remove soil & rock from 1 location of earth"s crust then transport it to another location. Down valley movement of eroded particles in a stream channel in solution. Accumulation of transported particles in stream bed. Each stream has drainage basin : *fig. Total land surface occupied by a drainage system . Composed of minerals that can roll, slide, transported *fig. What makes it appear/move: mixture of erosion and abrasion. Streams carry load as dissolved, suspended, and bedload: bedload roll,slide,or transport. Erosion of bedrock of a stream channel; also an activity of glacial ice, waves, wind .
