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| Deposit of sediment or rock particles accumulating from overland flow at the base of a slope and originating from higher slopes where sheet erosion is in progress |
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| Soil erosion occurring at a rate much faster than soil horizons can be formed from the parent regolith |
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| Type of accelerated soil erosion in which thin layers of soil are removed without formation of rills or gullies |
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| Form of accelerated erosion in which numerous, closely spaced miniature channels (rills) are scored into the surface of exposed soil or regolith |
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| One way to study the properties of streams is to organize them by stream order, in which stream segments are ordered from those draining the smallest of slopes to those formed far down stream from the progressive joining of many upstream segments. 554 |
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| Bench-like landform carved in alluvium by a stream during degradation |
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| Winding, sinuous valley produced by degradation of a stream with trenching into the bedrock by downcutting |
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| A stream that contributes water to the zone of saturation of groundwater and develops bank storage. Also known as losing stream |
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| A stream that is fed by seeping groundwater |
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| Ravines, valleys, peaks, canyons, spurs, and col |
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| Delta, fan, and floodplain |
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| Belt of higher ground paralleling a meandering alluvial river on both sides of the stream channel and built up by deposition of fine sediment during periods of overbank flooding |
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| Area of low, swampy ground on the floodplain of an alluvial river between the natural levee and the bluffs |
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