It's About Time/AGI

• How fast do sediment grains of different sizes settle? Vanderbilt University
  Check out this sample lesson plan for a lab about sediment grains settling rate.

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• Field Exercise: Stream Flow Dynamics and Sedimentation - Hobart & William Smith Colleges
  Another lab to try but this one is outside.

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• Streams and Drainage Systems - Tulane University
  Read an overview of many of the topics covered in this chapter, including particle size changes downstream (see the "Changes Downstream" section).

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• Journal of Sedimentary Research Articles - Abstracts
  Here are two abstracts for papers published in Journal of Sedimentary Research. The links take you to pages that include the necessary information to look up the article.
  1. The nature and controls on downstream fining, by Rice, S.
  2. Identifying the controls over downstream fining of river gravels, by Hoey, T. and Bluck, B.

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• Flood and Flash Flood - American Red Cross.
• Floods - University of Missouri

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