Rivers

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Table of Contents

Rivers

Water

Distribution of Water

The Hydrologic Cycle

Water Cycle

Running Water

Stream Profile

Properties of Moving Water

Discharge

Worldís 10 Largest Rivers

Urbanization

Floodplain

Annual Record of Discharge

Flow Lines

Stream Load(s)

Saltation

Influence of Velocity

Flow Patterns

Pot Holes

Competency and Capacity

The Chemical Load

Dam It!

To Dam Or Not To Dam

Environments of Deposition

Alluvial Fans

Braided Streams on a Fan

Braided Streams

Meandering Stream (I)

Meandering Stream (II)

Evolution of Meanders

Life on the Cut Bank

Entrenched Meanders

Natural Levees

Mature Stream Valley

Drainage Basins

River Terraces

Mississippi River Drainage

Drainage Patterns

Transition Zone Systems

Deltas

Infrared Image - Mississippi Delta

Evolution of the Mississippi Delta

Idealized Delta

Sedimentary Facies

Regression

Transgression

Author: John C Butler

Email: jbutler@uh.edu