Sediment
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Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particle itself.
Sediments are most often transported by water (fluvial processes), wind (aeolian processes) and glaciers. Beach sands and river channel deposits are examples of fluvial transport and deposition, though sediment also often settles out of slow-moving or standing water in lakes and ocean dunes and loess are examples of aeolian transport and deposition. Glacial moraine deposits and till are ice-transported sediments.
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See also
- Bar (river morphology)
- Beach cusps
- Biorhexistasy
- Bioswale
- Decantation
- Erosion
- Exner equation
- Particle size (grain size)
- Regolith
- Sand
- Sediment precipitation
- Sediment trap
- Sedimentary depositional environment
- Settling
- Surface runoff
- Deposition (geology)
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