Tomorrow River Glossary
- Alluvium
- General term for any sedimentary accumulations deposited
by recent actions of rivers. It thus includes river beds,
and flood plans.
- Bar and Swale
- Topography created by the deposition of sediment on point
bars.
- Cutbank
- The outside of a river meander, where the majority of
erosion occurs.
- Drift :
- A collective term for all the rock,sand or clay that is
deposited by a glacier either as till outwash.
- Floodplain
- The flat occasionally flooded area bordering a stream or
river.
- Incipient Oxbow
- A meander cuttoff in progress. A meander that is in the
process of becoming abandoned.
- Kame :
- A mound-like hill of ice-contact, stratified, layered
drift possibly formed as a delta at glacial front by
meltwater streams.
- Kettle :
- A small hollow, or depression formed in glacial deposits
when outwash deposited around a residual block of ice
that later melted.
- Meander Neck :
- Outwash :
- Glacial sediment deposited by meltwater streams
- Oxbow Lake
- A lake formed in the channel of an abandoned meander.
- Point Bar
- A crescent shaped accumulation of sand and gravel
deposited on the inside of a meander bend.
- River Meander :
- (Alluvial Meander) The sinuous bends of a river
- Scarp
- A cliff produced by erosion
- Terrace
- a nearly level surface bordering steeper slope such as
stream terrace or a wavecut terrace.
- Thalweg
- A location with in a stream where velocity is greatest.
- Yazoo Stream
- A tributary stream that flows parallel to the main stream
for a considerable distance before joining it.