land forms of deposition
- Created by: Libby Easden
- Created on: 23-04-13 19:21
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- depositional landforms
- braiding
- forced to divide into several channels after a sudden fall in discharge
- deposite of load in channel
- Eyots
- Deltas
- deposition of load in mouth of river
- split by depostion into channels
- distributries
- classified according to shape
- arcuate
- bird's foot
- cuspate
- floodplain
- are onto which a river floods
- thin layer of alluvium deposited each time causing depth of accretion to increase.
- Levee
- build up of coarser sediment on banks as it over flows onto the floodplain
- small natural embankments
- build up of coarser sediment on banks as it over flows onto the floodplain
- braiding
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