Potholes and Rapids

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What is the formation of niches or potholes by erosion due to vortices of water?
Evorsion
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What type of river flow effects the surface of the river?
Waterflow
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Where is the pothole case study?
SouthAfrica
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Rocks get swept into the small depressions and abraded the hole
Grinders
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Number of types of Rapids
Six
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Where potholes and rapids are found
Uppercourse
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A circular current of water
Eddycurrents
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A process which wears away the surface of the land
Erosion
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A fast flowing and turbulent part of a course of rive
Rapids
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A deep natural underground cave formed by the erosion of rock, especially by the action of wate
Potholes
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What type of river flow effects the surface of the river?

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Waterflow

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Where is the pothole case study?

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Rocks get swept into the small depressions and abraded the hole

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Number of types of Rapids

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