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Wearing away of a rock by grinding action. |
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| Sloping triangular deposits of sediment located where a mountain stream reaches level land. |
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| The level of the body of water into which a stream flows. |
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| Sand, pebbles, and boulders that are moved along the bed of a stream and that are too heavy to be carried in suspension. |
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A measure of the total amount of sediment in a stream and the size of the particles being moved by the stream. |
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| A fan-shaped deposit of sediment formed at the mouth of a stream or river. |
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| The volume of water flowing past a given point in a stream at a given time. |
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| The higher land seperating two adjacent drainage basins. |
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Drainage Basin or Watershed [image] |
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| Area of land surface drained by a river system. |
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| A sudden rush of water, usually caused by a single cloudburst over the narrow valley of a young mountain stream. |
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| Wide, level area that borders a stream and is covered by its water in time of a flood. |
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| A miniature valley formed by erosion from heavy rains. |
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| The wearing away of land at the head of a gully or a stream valley. |
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| A natural or artificial bank confining a stream or a river channel. |
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| One of the series of broad, looping bends in a stream. |
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| The crescent-shaped lake formed when a river meander gets cut off from the river and the ends of the original bend have silted up. |
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| Deep oval or circular hole cut into a stream bed by abrasion from swirling sand and pebbles. |
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| The state in which mineral matter dissolved from bedrock is carried into a river. |
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| The diversion of the upper part of one stream by the headward growth of another stream. |
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The state in which rock materials carried by a river are stirred up and kept from sinking by the turbulence of stream flow. |
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| A pass in a mountain ridge through which a stream flows. |
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