Fluvial Land Forms
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- badlands
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-caused when easily eroded materials are washed away in such quantities
-large areas of topography created by erosion. - badlands are also called
- erosional hills or mountains
- Rivers and valleys instability
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-climate
-hydrologic
-river banks
-vegitation systems - Rivers are
- dynamic environments
- Physical processes cause
- meandering streams
- meandering streams
- the most commom form of river channels
- oxbow lakes
- are lakes formed when meandering stream's loops eventually become too large and are separated from the main channel
- oxbow lakes are eventually filled with
- sediment
- the inside bends of meanedering streams are
- shallower and sites of deposition
- the outer bends of meandering streams are
- deeper and faster and sites of erosion
- meandering streams can appear to have
- many channels called braided channels
- braided channels are caused by
- excessive deposition and are extremely instable environments