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Stream banks are of particular interest in fluvial geography, which studies the processes associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by them. Bankfull discharge is a discharge great enough to fill the channel and overtop the banks. [2] Diagram of a river's left and right banks
A diagram of a possible river with the Strahler number of each tributary labeled. In hydrology, a stream order is a positive integer used to describe the level of river branching in a drainage basin. [18] Several systems of stream order exist, one of which is the Strahler number. In this system, the first tributaries of a river are 1st order ...
A floodwall at Zruč nad Sázavou, Czech Republic Floodwall in Sunbury, Pennsylvania Floodwall and a sliding gate in New Orleans French Market (1986). A floodwall is a freestanding, permanent, engineered structure designed to prevent encroachment of floodwaters. [1]
A cut bank, also known as a river cliff or river-cut cliff, is the outside bank of a curve in a water channel , which is continually undergoing erosion. [1] Cut banks are found in abundance along mature or meandering streams, they are located opposite the slip-off slope on the inside of the stream meander.
Meandering rivers, which form a sinuous path in a usually low-gradient plain toward the end of a fluvial system. Anastomosed river is a rare case of a relatively straight, complicated vertical sequence of river deposits with banks held together by dense vegetation.
Jun. 16—Artist Gabe Gault, outfitted with a handful of spray paint cans and a protective mask, took to the skies Wednesday afternoon, casting bright streaks of color against the previously brown ...
The terms river morphology and its synonym stream morphology are used to describe the shapes of river channels and how they change in shape and direction over time. The morphology of a river channel is a function of a number of processes and environmental conditions, including the composition and erodibility of the bed and banks (e.g., sand, clay, bedrock); erosion comes from the power and ...
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