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| Wearing away of rock by grinding action. |
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| Sloping triangular deposits of sediments located were a mountain stream reaches level land. |
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Level of body of water into wich a stream flows. |
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| Sands, pebbles, and boulders,that are moved along the bed of a stream and that are to heavy to be carried in suspension. |
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| Measure of the total amount of sediment in a stream and the size of the particals being moved by the stream. |
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| A fan-shaped deposit of sediment formed at the mouth of a stream or river. |
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| Volume of water flowing past a given point in a stream at a given time. |
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Watershed or Drainage Baisn [image] |
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| Area of land surface drained by a river system. |
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| Sudden rush of water, usually caused by a single cloudburst over the narrow valleyof a young mountain stream. |
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Flood Plain [image] [image] |
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| Wide, level area that borders a stream and that is coverd by its water in time of flood. |
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| A miniature valley formed by erosion by heavy rains. |
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| Wearing away of landat the head of a gully or stream. |
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| river embankments built by deposition as the river floods. |
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| One of a series od broad, looping bends in streams. |
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Ob Bow Lake [image] [image] [image] |
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| The cresent shaped lake formed when a river meander gets cut off from the river and ends of the original bend have silted up. |
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| Deep oval or circular hole cut into a stream bed by abraison from swirling pebbles and sand. |
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| State in wich mineral matter dissolved from bedrock is carried in a river. |
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| The diversion of the upper part of one stream byt he headward growth of another stream. |
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Suspension [image] [image] |
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| The state in wich rock materials carried by a river are stirred up and kept from sinking by the turbulence of stream flow. |
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| A pass in a moutain ridge through wich a stream flows. |
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