#list_of_fluvial_landforms

List of fluvial landforms

Landforms related to rivers and other watercourses include:Channel (geography) – Narrow body of water Confluence – Meeting of two or more bodies of flowing water Cut bank – Outside bank of a water channel, which is continually undergoing erosion Crevasse splay – Sediment deposited on a floodplain by a stream which breaks its levees Drainage basin – Land area where water converges to a common outlet (watershed) Esker – Long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel associated with former glaciers Floodplain – Land adjacent to a water body which is flooded during periods of high water Fluvial landforms of streams Fluvial terrace – Elongated terraces that flank the sides of floodplains and river valleys Canyon – Deep chasm between cliffs (Gorge) Gully – Landform created by running water and/or mass movement eroding sharply into soil Island – Piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water Levee § Natural levees Meander – One of a series of curves in a channel of a matured stream Oxbow lake – U-shaped lake or pool Pendant bar – fluvial landform formed on the downstream side of a weathering-resistant protrusion Plunge pool – Depression at the base of a waterfall Point bar – Landform related to streams and rivers Pothole – Natural bowl-shaped hollow carved into a streambed Riffle – Shallow landform in a flowing channel River – Natural flowing freshwater stream River delta – Silt deposition landform at the mouth of a river River island – Exposed landmass within a river River valley, also known as vale – Low area between hills, often with a river running through it Shoal, also known as bar – Natural submerged sandbank that rises from a body of water to near the surface Spring (hydrology) – Point at which water emerges from an aquifer to the surface Stream – Body of surface water flowing down a channel Stream pool – Deep and slow-moving stretch of a watercourse Waterfall – A point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop Yazoo stream – Hydrologic term

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