Sediment load in a river is transported as dissolved load, suspended load, saltation load, and bed load, in increasing order of the kinetic energy/stream power required to move it. Dissolved load requires essentially no mechanical energy since it is chemically transported in solution.
River transport modes require progressively more kinetic energy: dissolved load (ions in solution) moves passively with the water itself and requires no threshold velocity or...
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