Come to one or the other, but not both. Parking is tight down here at SIO, so walking or carpooling will help. This lecture deals with some aspects of rivers and streams. A stream is any body of flowing water, from a tiny creek up to the Amazon River. For the purposes of this lecture, I will use river and stream interchangeably.
Rivers are major forces for erosion and transport on Earth's surface.
They erode billions of tons of material from the land each year and carry that material to lakes and the ocean. Most of the water which runs back to the ocean in the hydrologic cycle flows through the Earth's rivers. This sediment is transported inside the water column as the water flows downstream. Bed Load Made up of coarse clastic material which rolls and slides along the river bed, rather than being suspended in the water column. See Figure 13.2 for a diagram showing suspended and bed loads.