Describe the various ways in which streams can transport material

What will be an ideal response?


dissolved load: material that travels in solution, the product of chemical weathering.
suspended load: fine-grained clastic particles held aloft in the stream until velocity decreases to near zero.
bed load: coarser materials moved by traction or saltation.

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