In geomorphology, drainage systems, also known as river systems, are the patterns formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin...
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Look up drainage system in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Drainage system may refer to: Drainage system (geomorphology), patterns formed by streams,...
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watershed Drainage by wells Drainage divide or watershed Drainage equation Drainage research Drainage system (agriculture) Drainage system (geomorphology) Geomorphology...
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Coastal erosion Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography Drainage system (geomorphology) Erosion prediction Geologic modelling Geomorphometry Geotechnics...
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Investigation Discovery network Other uses: Deranged, a type of drainage system (geomorphology) Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615–1648), Ottoman Sultan called...
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drainage may refer to: Surface drainage of the land Drainage system (geomorphology), pattern of natural drains, streams, rivers, etc. Land drainage -...
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in fluvial geomorphology. A drainage basin is the source for water and sediment that moves from higher elevation through the river system to lower elevations...
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Emergent and Submerged Macrophytesin an Oxbow Lake of an Embanked Backwater System: Implications for the Terrestrialization Process". International Review...
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2021-06-14. Retrieved 2021-06-14. Goudie, A. S., 2004, Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, vol. 1. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-32737-7 Kovács, János (2013)...
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Badlands (category Geomorphology)
number of deep drainage channels, separated by short, steep ridges (interfluves). Such a drainage system is said to have a very fine drainage texture, as...
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Avulsion (river) (category Geomorphology)
In sedimentary geology and fluvial geomorphology, avulsion is the rapid abandonment of a river channel and the formation of a new river channel. Avulsions...
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Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio (October 19, 1991). "A physical basis for drainage density". Geomorphology. 5 (1–2): 59–76. doi:10.1016/0169-555X(92)90058-V. Fitts, Charles...
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divide where it is possible to portage a canoe from one river system to another. Drainage divides can be divided into three types: Continental divides...
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Endorheic basin (redirect from Internal drainage system)
basins are also called closed basins, terminal basins, and internal drainage systems. Endorheic regions contrast with open lakes (exorheic regions), where...
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River morphology Large-scale features Alluvial plain Drainage basin Drainage system (geomorphology) Estuary Strahler number (stream order) River valley...
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Hydrogeomorphology (category Geomorphology)
basin form. Hydro-geomorphology is science that deals with occurrences of water with respect to landform. Hydrogeomorphology of a drainage basin is a function...
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the evolution of drainage systems in the Himalayas and his writings on tropical coastal geomorphology. He wrote books on geomorphology, geology, and the...
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Stream head cut (redirect from Head Cut (Stream Geomorphology))
In geomorphology, a stream head cut or simply head cut (alternately headcut) is an erosional feature of some intermittent and perennial streams. Headcuts...
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Channel pattern (category Geomorphology)
particular type of sediment Drainage system (geomorphology) – Patterns formed by streams, rivers, and lakes in a drainage system Fluvial landforms Fluvial...
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Complex response (category Geomorphology)
through a given system creating new agents of change, and operating at several levels. The term is most commonly used in fluvial geomorphology, or the study...
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Ridge (redirect from Reef (geomorphology))
supplement 2. Oslo, Norway. p. 111. Huggett, R.J. (2011). Fundamentals of geomorphology (3rd ed.). New York, New York: Routledge. p. 516. ISBN 978-0203860083...
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where rivers flow into one of the numerous lakes. The most important drainage system is known as Yedisu, meaning "seven rivers" in Turkic languages. Below...
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is a positive whole number used in geomorphology and hydrology to indicate the level of branching in a river system. There are various approaches to the...
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Cuchlaine; Landforms and Geomorphology: Concepts and History, Wiley, 1976 ISBN 978-0470150542 Rice, R. J.; Fundamentals of Geomorphology, Longman, 1988 ISBN 978-0582301511...
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Cedar Sink (section Geomorphology)
hydrology and geomorphology for years, but it was not until recently that the underground water system was understood. Extensive drainage-network analysis...
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Mass wasting (redirect from Flow (geomorphology))
extensive mass wasting of its volcanic mountains. Mass wasting affects geomorphology, most often in subtle, small-scale ways, but occasionally more spectacularly...
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Terrain (section Geomorphology)
the understanding of watershed boundaries, drainage characteristics, drainage systems, groundwater systems, water movement, and impacts on water quality...
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Mouth bar (category Geomorphology)
ISSN 0149-1423. Tye, Robert S. (August 2004). "Geomorphology: An approach to determining subsurface reservoir dimensions". AAPG Bulletin...
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Cycle of erosion (redirect from Davisian geomorphology)
that of climatic geomorphology, were attacked by their perceived association to it. The notions of time, uplift, slope and drainage density evolution...
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Geography of Africa (redirect from African geomorphology)
ISBN 978-0-253-01302-6. Goudie, A.S. (2005). "The drainage of Africa since the Cretaceous". Geomorphology. 67 (3–4): 437–456. Bibcode:2005Geomo..67..437G...
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