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Suspended load is the term for the fine particles that are light enough to be carried in a stream
Stream

A stream is a body of water less than 60 feet wide with a current , confined within a stream bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as brook, beck, Burn , creek, crick, kill, lick , rill, river syke, bayou, rivu...
 without touching the stream bed
Stream bed

A stream bed is the channel bottom of a stream, river or creek; the physical confine of the normal water flow. The lateral confines or channel margins, during all but flood stage, are known as the stream banks or river banks....
. These particles are generally of the fine sand, silt and clay size, although they can be larger, especially in cases of high discharge
Discharge (hydrology)

In hydrology, the discharge or outflow of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. It is contrasted with inflow ....
, such as during floods. This is in contrast to bed load
Bed load

The term Bed load describes particles in a flowing fluid that are transported along the bed. This is in opposition to suspended load and wash load which are carried entirely in suspension....
 which is carried along the bottom of the stream.

The size and weight of the particles in the suspended load is directly related to the discharge
Discharge (hydrology)

In hydrology, the discharge or outflow of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. It is contrasted with inflow ....
 of the stream.






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Suspended load is the term for the fine particles that are light enough to be carried in a stream
Stream

A stream is a body of water less than 60 feet wide with a current , confined within a stream bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as brook, beck, Burn , creek, crick, kill, lick , rill, river syke, bayou, rivu...
 without touching the stream bed
Stream bed

A stream bed is the channel bottom of a stream, river or creek; the physical confine of the normal water flow. The lateral confines or channel margins, during all but flood stage, are known as the stream banks or river banks....
. These particles are generally of the fine sand, silt and clay size, although they can be larger, especially in cases of high discharge
Discharge (hydrology)

In hydrology, the discharge or outflow of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. It is contrasted with inflow ....
, such as during floods. This is in contrast to bed load
Bed load

The term Bed load describes particles in a flowing fluid that are transported along the bed. This is in opposition to suspended load and wash load which are carried entirely in suspension....
 which is carried along the bottom of the stream.

The size and weight of the particles in the suspended load is directly related to the discharge
Discharge (hydrology)

In hydrology, the discharge or outflow of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. It is contrasted with inflow ....
 of the stream. The higher the discharge, the larger and heavier the particles .

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  • Sediment
    Sediment

    Sediment is any particulate matter that can be sediment transport by fluid dynamics, and which eventually is deposited.Sediments are most often transported by water transported by wind and glaciers....
  • Sediment transport
    Sediment transport

    Sediment transport is the movement of solid particles due to the movement of the fluid in which they are entrained. This is typically studied in natural systems, where the particles are clastic rocks , mud, or clay, and the fluid is air, water, or ice....
  • Rouse number
    Rouse number

    The Rouse number is a dimensionless number in fluid dynamics which determines how sediment will be transported in a flowing fluid. It is a ratio between the sediment terminal velocity and the upwards velocity on the grain as a product of the von K?rm?n constant and the shear velocity ....
  • Bed load
    Bed load

    The term Bed load describes particles in a flowing fluid that are transported along the bed. This is in opposition to suspended load and wash load which are carried entirely in suspension....
  • Wash load
    Wash load

    Wash load is the portion of sediment that is carried by a fluid flow, usually in a river, such that it always remains near the free surface ....
  • Dissolved load
    Dissolved load

    Dissolved load is the term for material, especially ions from chemical weathering, that are carried in solution by a stream....