Rivers EOTT
- Created by: C.T. McAllister
- Created on: 14-01-20 19:19
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- River Exam
- Hydrograph
- Parts of graph
- Rainfall
- Rising Limb
- Falling Limb
- Peak Discharge
- Lag Time
- Baseflow (ground-water flow)
- Flashy graph
- Small basin
- High drainage density
- Impermeable rocks
- Urbanisation
- Steep slopes
- Saturated soil
- Heavy Rain
- Flat graph
- Large basin
- Low drainage density
- Permeable rocks
- Forests via "Interception"
- Gentle slopes
- Dry soil
- Light rain
- Parts of graph
- River profile
- Upper course
- V shape valley
- Steep sided.
- Narrow & shallow
- Turbulent river
- Middle course
- Wider & flatter floor
- Wider & deeper river
- Flood-plain
- Lower course
- Very wide & flat
- Wide & deep.
- Large sediment load
- Levees
- Upper course
- River processes
- Transportation
- Traction
- Saltation
- Suspension
- Solution
- Erosion
- Hydraulic action
- Abrasion
- Attrition
- Solution
- Transportation
- Landforms
- Waterfalls
- Undercutting of rock
- Hydraulic action
- Abrasion
- Plunge pool created
- Hardrock left hanging then collapses
- Harder rocks crash in plunge pool creating more erosion
- Process repeated until gorge is created
- River Tees
- Meanders
- Outside of meander eroded
- Lateral erosion
- Low energy on inside means deposition
- Course sediment may create deep + shallow sections
- Pools
- Riffles
- River cliff
- Outside of meander eroded
- Meanders
- Undercutting of rock
- Meanders
- Outside of meander eroded
- Lateral erosion
- Low energy on inside means deposition
- Course sediment may create deep + shallow sections
- Pools
- Riffles
- River cliff
- Outside of meander eroded
- Waterfalls
- Engineering
- Hard
- Dams & Reservoirs
- Channel Straightening
- Embankments
- Flood relief channels
- Soft
- Floodplain zoning
- River restoration
- Flood warning
- Banbury
- Hard
- Hydrograph
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