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Rivers
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Rivers
Processes
- Erosion
- Abrasion
- Scraping surfaces
- Attrition
- Collision breakdown
- Solution
- Rock dissolution
- Hydraulic action
- Water force
- Abrasion
- Deposition
- Transportation
- Traction
- Large boulders
- Saltation
- Pebbles
- Suspension
- Small rock particles
- Solution
- Dissolved rocks that are acids
- Traction
- Erosion
Parts
- Source
- Tributaries
- Confluence
- Meander
- Delta
- Mouth
Meanders
- Inside curve
- Most enegry
- Erosion
- Outside curve
- Least energy
- Deposition
- Oxbow lakes
- Bend gets sharper
- In a flood the bend gets cut off
- It forms an oxbow lake and then eventually dries up
- In a flood the bend gets cut off
- Bend gets sharper
- Inside curve
Examples
- River Ganges
- India/Bangladesh
- River Volga
- Russia
- River Yangtze
- China
- River Ganges