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most prominent features of a narrow valley |
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streams that flow on floodplains move in sweeping bends |
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most commonly occuring drainage pattern |
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land that contributes to the water of a stream |
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imaginary line seperating two streams |
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rectangle drainage pattern |
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develops when the bedrock is crisscrossed by a series of joints or faults and is characterized by many right angle bends |
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of a stream measures the maximum size of particles it is capable of transporting and is determined by the streams valocity |
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the maximum load that a stream can carry and is directly related to its discharge(volume) |
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three ways streams transport |
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1.suspended load 2.solution (dissolve) 3.bed (scooting or rolling) load |
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most streams (but not all) carrry the largest part of their load |
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the lowest point to which a stream can erode its channel |
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