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bedload

Material rolled or bounced (by saltation) along a river bed. The particles carried as bedload are much larger than those carried in suspension in the water. During a flood many heavy boulders may be moved in this way. Such boulders can be seen lying on the river bed during times of normal flow.



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A hydrology project at Redwood National Park helped geologists monitor the shifts in bedload in an aggraded stream along which the tallest redwood trees occur.
Mutual benefits of teacher/scientist partnerships by Starvel, Erin / Academic Exchange Quarterly
Photo: (1--color) A tractor pulls a bedload of visitorsaround Tierra Rejada Ranch in Moorpark, past a field scattered with pumpkins for the picking.
FARM'S PUMPKINS PRIME FOR PICKING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The bedload only gets moving when severe thunderstorms or snowmelts swell the river.
Rafting through time by Hart, Stephen / Science World
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