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    Floodplain (redirect from River plain)
    floodplain. The quantity of sediments in a floodplain greatly exceeds the river load of sediments. Thus, floodplains are an important storage site for sediments...
    32 KB (3,829 words) - 03:39, 5 September 2024
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    complementary to suspended load and wash load. Bed load moves by rolling, sliding, and/or saltating (hopping). Generally, bed load downstream will be smaller...
    4 KB (496 words) - 17:25, 26 January 2024
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    In road transport, an oversize load (or overweight load) is a load that exceeds the standard or ordinary legal size and/or weight limits for a truck to...
    17 KB (1,865 words) - 01:27, 3 September 2024
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    A superposed load or stacked charge or superimposed load is a method used by various muzzle-loading firearms, from matchlocks to caplocks, including a...
    7 KB (854 words) - 06:23, 7 September 2023
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    Stream load is a geologic term referring to the solid matter carried by a stream (Strahler and Strahler, 2006). Erosion and bed shear stress continually...
    6 KB (785 words) - 16:25, 1 November 2020
  • The suspended load of a flow of fluid, such as a river, is the portion of its sediment uplifted by the fluid's flow in the process of sediment transportation...
    6 KB (672 words) - 23:40, 15 July 2023
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    material removed from a river's drainage basin, along with suspended load and bed load. The amount of material carried as dissolved load is typically much smaller...
    9 KB (911 words) - 06:39, 13 August 2023
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    streams tend to occur in rivers with high sediment loads or coarse grain sizes, and in rivers with steeper slopes than typical rivers with straight or meandering...
    17 KB (1,941 words) - 01:58, 21 September 2024
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    blackwater river in the world, and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge. Despite its high flow, the Rio Negro has a low sediment load (5...
    39 KB (1,586 words) - 14:26, 19 August 2024
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    Traction is where large stones or boulders in the river's load are rolled along by the force of the river. Helm, Janet and Robinson, Arthur (2002), GCSE...
    2 KB (164 words) - 00:53, 24 July 2023
  • A load-following power plant, regarded as producing mid-merit or mid-priced electricity, is a power plant that adjusts its power output as demand for electricity...
    31 KB (4,011 words) - 06:28, 14 May 2024
  • Wash load is similar to a suspended load, but wash load sediment never interacts with the bed load. All of the sediment in the wash load stays suspended...
    5 KB (724 words) - 13:11, 26 February 2022
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    Okavango Delta (category River deltas of Africa)
    a river normally have a high mud content, and this combines with the sand in the river’s load to continuously build up the river banks. The river’s load...
    40 KB (4,122 words) - 03:17, 20 July 2024
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    price per kilowatt hour than base load power. Peak load power plants are dispatched in combination with base load power plants,[citation needed] which...
    18 KB (2,110 words) - 20:19, 25 June 2024
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    and constitute the bed load that the river moves downstream by rolling and bouncing along the channel bottom. When the bed load reaches the edge of the...
    51 KB (5,991 words) - 21:55, 3 October 2024
  • are included in the load of a river system are the following: dissolved load, wash load and bed material load. The bed material load is the portion of the...
    8 KB (1,127 words) - 07:17, 11 February 2024
  • of the rivers listed in the table. List of drainage basins by area List of rivers by discharge List of rivers by dissolved load Indian Rivers Inter-link...
    4 KB (210 words) - 12:17, 27 August 2024
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    (attrition). Sediment in rivers is transported as either bedload (the coarser fragments which move close to the bed) or suspended load (finer fragments carried...
    11 KB (1,276 words) - 04:32, 26 May 2024
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    in gravel-bed rivers. This bed material load is the only part of the sediment load that actively interacts with the bed. As the bed load is an important...
    56 KB (8,282 words) - 08:15, 25 June 2024
  • Limit State Design (LSD), also known as Load And Resistance Factor Design (LRFD), refers to a design method used in structural engineering. A limit state...
    12 KB (1,677 words) - 19:21, 27 February 2024
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