Flashcards
AS Rejuvenation
Cards in this deck (10)
- 1Base LevelThe lowest point to which a stream can erode its channel.
- 2EustaticGLOBAL changes in sea level.
- 3FjordsDrowned glacial valleys - narrow deep inlets of the sea, set between high cliffs.
- 4Incised MeandersMeanders that have vertically eroded, mostly due to rejuvenation.
- 5IsostaticLOCAL changes in sea level, resulting in the rise or fall of land masses.
- 6Knick PointsBreaks along the long profile of a river, usually marked by rapids or a waterfall. The knick-point shows where the old long profile joins the new.
- 7Raised BeachedA coastline that has raised above the current beach.
- 8RejuvenationA process in which a river has renewed energy to erode vertically, to reach its base level.
- 9RiasEstuaries that have been 'drowned' when ice melted and sea levels rose.
- 10River TerraceA flat surface above a floodplain of a river, showing the erosional remnant of an older floodplain.