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  2. Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines - Wikipedia

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    The Streamline Moderne style, a 1930s and 1940s offshoot of Art Deco, brought flowing lines to architecture and design of the era. The canonical example of a streamlined shape is a chicken egg with the blunt end facing forwards. This shows clearly that the curvature of the front surface can be much steeper than the back of the object.

  3. River morphology - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

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    Aeolian landform – Landforms produced by action of the winds include: . Dry lake – Area that contained a standing surface water body; Sandhill – Type of ecological community or xeric wildfire-maintained ecosystem

  5. Drumlin - Wikipedia

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    Drumlins occur in various shapes and sizes, [6] including symmetrical (about the long axis), spindle, parabolic forms, and transverse asymmetrical forms. Generally, they are elongated, oval-shaped hills, with a long axis parallel to the orientation of ice flow and with an up-ice (stoss) face that is generally steeper than the down-ice (lee) face.

  6. Geomorphometry - Wikipedia

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    'form, shape' + Ancient Greek: μέτρον, romanized: métron, lit. 'measure'), is the science and practice of measuring the characteristics of terrain, the shape of the surface of the Earth, and the effects of this surface form on human and natural geography. [1]

  7. Channel types - Wikipedia

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    A wide variety of river and stream channel types exist in limnology, the study of inland waters.All these can be divided into two groups by using the water-flow gradient as either low gradient channels for streams or rivers with less than two percent (2%) flow gradient, or high gradient channels for those with greater than a 2% gradient.

  8. Technical geography - Wikipedia

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    Technical geography is the branch of geography that involves using, studying, and creating tools to obtain, analyze, interpret, understand, ...

  9. Col (meteorology) - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the position of the col between pressure highs and lows in the Northern Hemisphere. A col, also called saddle point or neutral point, is in meteorology, the point of intersection of a trough and a ridge in the pressure pattern of a weather map.