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Fluvial Landforms

1. What is base level?
   
   
2. What is aggradation and when does aggradation occur?
   
   
3. What is degradation and when does degradation occur?
   
   
4. What are three types of stream channels?
   • What are the characteristics of each of these channel types?
   •  Under what conditions do these different types of channels form?
   • Which stream channel type is most common? Why?
     
     
5. What are the landforms typically found along meandering rivers?  How are these landforms created?
   
   
6. What is the thalweg of a river?
   
   
7. Where along a river would we expect to find pools? riffles? point bar deposits?
   
   
8. How is an oxbow lake different from a meander scar?
   
   
9. How are flood frequency and flood magnitude related?
   
   
10. What is a floodplain?
    
    
11. What kinds of landforms do we find in floodplains?