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Leni [432]
3 years ago
5

During a flood, a river drops the largest pieces of its sediment on the floodplain close to its normal channel. explain why?

Geography
1 answer:
d1i1m1o1n [39]3 years ago
7 0
<span>When a stream floods, it deposits much of the sediment that it carries onto its floodplain as the largest pieces have a lot of weight and cannot be carried so are deposited.</span>
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