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Magnetic minerals and fluvial processes

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This chapter is concerned with particles in transit once they have reached a defined water course. Prior to the period of movement within a river channel, the particles will have been either released from the land surface and delivered to the channel by rainsplash, sheet erosion, rill and gully erosion or mass movement, or else removed from the channel banks or stream bed through the erosive effect of the moving water and its entrained load. Sediment within the channel is normally considered as either suspended sediment or bedload, though as flow conditions vary through space and time the distinction is more one of practical convenience than of consistent differentiation.

... he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.

Kenneth Graham

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Thompson, R., Oldfield, F. (1986). Magnetic minerals and fluvial processes. In: Environmental Magnetism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8036-8_9

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