Combined effects of erosion & deposition
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Combined Effects of Erosion & Deposition
• Pools and Riffles• Meanders and Ox-bow lakes• River Terraces
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Pools and Riffles
Pools: are areas of deep water and greater erosion. (Energy build up due to less friction)
Riffles : are areas of shallow water caused by deposition of coarse sediment
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Sinuosity
Is the curving nature of a river’s course.
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Thalweg
The position of the rivers fastest flowing current.
(Least friction, greater energy, greatest erosion)
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The meandering ThalwegThalweg – the line of fastest flow in a river
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Pool
Riffle
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Meander
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Meander – Bends in course of a river channel
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How occur?1. Begin when a river
approaches its middle course & gradient channel is less steep.
2. It results from helicoidal flow with faster current spirals downstream in corkscrew fashion.
3. Movement result in erosion on outside bend of meander to form river cliff and deposit on inside bend called slip off slope.
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Point bar
River cliffSlip-off slope
Thalweg
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Material is deposited on the inside of a meander bend as a point bar.
At point bars
particles are usually graded in
size (sorted) with the largest
particles found on
the upstream
side.
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As erosion occurs on the outside of the meander bend, the whole meander migrates downstream.
Material forming
the point bar
becomes a
contributory factor
in floodplai
n formation
.
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As sinuosity increases,
during flood events the flow may cut of the meander
bend at the neck, thus shortening its course.
Temporary straightening of the channel means the main flow is in mid channel, meaning deposition now occurs at the river banks and the old curve is therefore abandoned to leave an ox-bow lake.
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River / Fluvial Terraces
• Benches on the valley side
• Formed when a river cuts into a former floodplain Following vertical erosion caused by rejuvenation
• Can be formed in bedrock
• Result from AGGRADATION f0llowed by INCISION of a river valley
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• T = terraces• C = confluence
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