Bedload

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-002933",
  "term": "Bedload",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Sediment carried along a channel bed by sliding, rolling, or bouncing.\n\n2. Material in transport that primarily is supported by the streambed.These particles are retained in the bedload sampler. A sample collected with a pressure-differential bedload sampler also may contain a component of the suspended load.\n\n3. In-stream sediment transport mode in which individual particles either roll or slide along the stream bed as a shallow, mobile layer a few particle diameters deep (the particle size depends on the energy level of the flowing water).",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Watershed Protection Glossary",
    "USGS Water Resources Data State, 2005 Definition of Terms",
    "EPA Guidance for Federal Land Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Glossary at http://www.epa.gov/owow_keep/NPS/chesbay502/pdf/chesbay_glossary.pdf"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/bedload/"
}