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  2. River - Wikipedia

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    The Lena river delta in Russia is formed from the river's sediment. While rivers may flow into lakes or man-made features such as reservoirs, the water they contain will always tend to flow down toward the ocean. [3] However, if human activity siphons too much water away from a river for other uses, the riverbed may run dry before reaching the ...

  3. List of rivers by age - Wikipedia

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    This river may predate the break-up of western Gondwana as an extension of a proto-Congo river system, 200 Mya during the Jurassic. Ohio: 3~2.5 Mississippi River: Formed when the Laurentide Ice Sheet dammed the north flowing Teays River during the Pre-Illinoian glaciation. The drainage area of the Teays could no longer drain to the north, and ...

  4. Channel (geography) - Wikipedia

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    An example of a river running through a sand bar is the Columbia Bar—the mouth of the Columbia River. A stream channel is the physical confine of a stream consisting of a bed and stream banks. Stream channels exist in a variety of geometries. Stream channel development is controlled by both water and sediment movement.

  5. Stream - Wikipedia

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    The source of a river or stream (its point of origin) can consist of lakes, swamps, springs, or glaciers. A typical river has several tributaries; each of these may be made up of several other smaller tributaries, so that together this stream and all its tributaries are called a drainage network.

  6. Fluvial sediment processes - Wikipedia

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    The amount of matter carried by a large river is enormous. It has been estimated that the Mississippi River annually carries 406 million tons of sediment to the sea, [5] the Yellow River 796 million tons, and the Po River in Italy 67 million tons. [6] The names of many rivers derive from the color that the transported matter gives the water.

  7. Confluence - Wikipedia

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    A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river ; or where two streams meet to become the source of a river of a new name (such as the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, forming the Ohio River); or where two separated channels of a river (forming a river island) rejoin at ...

  8. Tributary - Wikipedia

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    The water basin of the Wabash River; the other rivers (not including the Ohio River) are tributaries of the Wabash River. The Vermillion River (and its forks) is a highlighted example of a tributary of the Wabash River. The Wabash River is also a tributary of the Ohio River, which in turn is a tributary of the Mississippi River.

  9. Ohio River - Wikipedia

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    Before the river was created, large parts of North America were covered by water forming a saltwater lake about 200 miles across and 400 miles in length. The bedrock of the Ohio Valley was mostly set during this time. [21] The river formed on a piecemeal basis beginning between 2.5 and 3 million years ago.

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