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saltation

sediment transport process, moves grains across the bottom by bouncing or hopping.The actual current carries the sediment load in traction and saltation flows,whereas downslope movement under the force of gravity carries the sediment in gravity flows
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saltation

Summary

saltation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (54 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • saltation's image is recorded as Saltating dune sand.jpg[2].
  • saltation's image is recorded as Saltation on sand dune.png[3].
  • saltation's subclass of is recorded as sediment transport[4].
  • saltation's Commons category is recorded as Saltation[5].
  • saltation's opposite of is recorded as traction[6].
  • saltation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bkvxx[7].
  • saltation's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/saltation-form-of-locomotion[8].
  • saltation's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/saltation-sediment-transport-process[9].
  • saltation's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as saltation[10].
  • saltation's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 3305012[11].

Why It Matters

saltation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (54 views/month).[1] saltation has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] saltation is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_saltation_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{saltation}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/saltation}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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