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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. Caño Cristales - Wikipedia

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    The river is commonly called the "River of Five Colors" or the "Liquid Rainbow," and is noted for its striking colors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The bed of the river from the end of July through November is variously colored yellow, green, blue, black, and especially red, the last caused by Rhyncholacis clavigera ( syn. Macarenia clavigera ) plants on the ...

  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. Channel (geography) - Wikipedia

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    In physical geography and hydrology, a channel is a landform on which a relatively narrow body of water is situated, such as a river, river delta or strait. While channel typically refers to a natural formation, the cognate term canal denotes a similar artificial structure.

  7. 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.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Riverscape - Wikipedia

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    A riverscape [1] (also called river landscape) [2] comprises the features of the landscape which can be found on and along a river. Most features of riverscapes include natural landforms (such as meanders and oxbow lakes) but they can also include artificial landforms (such as man-made levees and river groynes). Riverscapes can be divided into ...

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