You are exploring a section of a river. It is relatively straight -- not snaking. As you walk along the river, you use y

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You are exploring a section of a river. It is relatively straight -- not snaking. As you walk along the river, you use y

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You are exploring a section of a river. It is relativelystraight -- not snaking. As you walk along the river, you use yourphone to track elevation. You find that you decrease 1.3 meters inelevation over a distance of 0.75 km. You wade out into the riverand the water comes up to your chest level - about 1.3 meters. Theriver in that section is 9 meters wide.
You find that the sediments are around 1.2 to 1.4millimeters in diameter on the bottom of the river.
After your exploration, you look up some flow data forthat river. You find that it has a discharge of 10.4 cubic metersper second.
Question :
1.For the information provided in the Introduction(above), what is the main size sediment found in this section ofthe river?
silt
sand .
clay
cobbles
2.For the information provided in the Introduction(above), what is the degree of sorting of the sediments found inthis section of the river?
poor
well
moderate
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