The river transports sediment down the steep gradients and narrow gorges in the mountains and foothills where the gradient is at least ten metres per km.

Geologists estimate that the Virgin River can cut another thousand feet (300 m) before it loses the ability to transport sediment to the Colorado River to the south.

This flow expansion results in a decrease in the flow velocity, which diminishes the ability of the flow to transport sediment.

"In doing that they transport sediment from the beach or adjacent reef platform and they throw it on to the top of the island."

Fluvial geomorphologists focus on rivers, how they transport sediment, migrate across the landscape, cut into bedrock, respond to environmental and tectonic changes, and interact with humans.

Longshore drift continually extends the barrier behind which the hapua forms by transporting sediment along the coast.

Return flows, runoff, and leach ate from irrigated lands may transport sediment, nutrients, salts, and other materials.

Biochemical signals diffusing out from the rock kept the harbor free of coral, and plankton transported sediment to the reefs where it was needed; the water here looked bottomless, deep blue-green.

Because they transport sediment as a granular mixture, their transport mechanisms and capacities scale differently than those of fluvial systems.

The difference is the sediment supplied by the Waimakariri River is a source for the coast's New Brighton spit due to the reversal of southern currents transporting sediment to the south.