Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mind Map; JC Rivers
- Parts
- Source
- Tributary
- Confluence
- Estuart
- Course
- Basin
- Mouth
- Watershed
- 3 stages
- Young
- Middle
- Old
- Processes
- Erosion
- Hydraulic action
- Abrasion
- Attrition
- Solution
- Vertical erosion
- Lateral erosion
- Transport
- Rolling
- Bouncing
- Suspension
- Solution
- Deposition
- Features of deposition
- Floodplain
- Flat land
- Alluvium
- Levee
- heaviest material
- Natural flood defence
- Backswamps
- Ox bow lake
- Meander
- Cut off neck of
land
- River flows staright
- Horse shoe shape
- Mort lake
- Features of erosion
- V shape valley
- Interlocking spurs
- Hard rock
- zig zag pattern
- Waterfall
- Notch
- Undercut
- Retreat
- Mahon falls
- Plunge pool
- Gorge
- Hard & soft rock
- Meander
- Bend in river
- Pronounced over time
- Erosion & Deposition
- Fast on outside bend
- Erosion
- River cliff
- Slow on inside of bend
- Deposition
- River beach