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The bed-load sediments that are found trapped in the depositional alluvial fans of ephemeral gullies and ravines are the remains of sediments mobilised by erosion in the catchment minus those sediments removed by flowing water. Erosion is selective; it removes different parts of the soil and regolith in different proportions and the least easily moved sediments dominate the sediments trapped in depositional fans. Although the rules which govern selective erosion are quite complicated, there remains the possibility of measuring the volume and particle size distribution of the sediments in an alluvial fan and use this information to calculate the total amount of sediment removed by the flows that created the fan.
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Haigh, M.J. (2010). Estimating Sediment Mobilisation from Torrent and Gully Deposits: Field Studies. In: Integrated Watershed Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3769-5_21
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