Mapa mental
Levees
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Levees
Sediment
- banks
- deposition
- lower stage
- loses energy
- slows down when it floods
- becomes shallower
- deposition will occur on riverbed
- overflows on to floodplain
- River overflows
- loses energy
- deposits
- heaviest stones close to banks
- sediment builds on banks
- natural defence
- rises higher to escape levees
- levees preventing overflow
- rises higher to escape levees
- natural defence
- humans interfere with natural processes
- triggering extreme floods
- examples
- DON'T FORGET DIAGRAM
- examples
- triggering extreme floods
- sediment builds on banks
- heaviest stones close to banks
- deposits
- loses energy
- River overflows
- overflows on to floodplain
- deposition will occur on riverbed
- becomes shallower
- slows down when it floods
- loses energy
- lower stage
- deposition
- banks
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- Mapa Mental sobre Levees, creado por Gerald Cunningham el 03/11/2020.
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- Gerald Cunningham
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