How does the speed of a river help determine what type of material the river carries ?

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alones · Answer

Umm that would be helpful, if there was more details, but anyways,
 
“The speed of a river determines on the age of the river. The younger the river the faster and stronger the river is, the older the river the slower and weaker the river is. “
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likeabossssssss · Answer

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legomyego180 · Answer

Sorry about the long wait for an answer.
You can get very in depth with this answer, there are entire courses dedicated to the study of it.
But the basic answer is that there are three types of "load" in a body of moving water.
1.Dissolved Load
2.Suspended Load
3.Bed Load

The dissolved load is sediment dissolved within the water itself, and not very important for this question.
The suspended load is sediment larger than the dissolved load with floats along freely with the water. The faster the flow of the stream, the more sediment you will see in the suspended load.
Lastly, the bed load is composed of the larger sediments which are dragged along the bed of a stream but do not flow freely like the suspended load. As the velocity of a stream increased the bed load also increases.

With increased stream velocity you will see increased erosion, which also increases sediment yield.

The main idea to get out of this is that as a stream increases velocity, sediment yield also increases.

Hope this helped