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    The document summarizes key fluvial landforms formed by erosion and deposition of rivers. It describes 3 stages of a river and landforms associated with each stage such as waterfalls, canyons, and river valleys that form during the youth stage. Depositional landforms like alluvial fans, natural levees, flood plains, and deltas form as sediment loads decrease in later stages. The document provides details on specific fluvial landforms with diagrams and explanations of their formation processes.

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    The document summarizes key fluvial landforms formed by erosion and deposition of rivers. It describes 3 stages of a river and landforms associated with each stage such as waterfalls, canyons, and river valleys that form during the youth stage. Depositional landforms like alluvial fans, natural levees, flood plains, and deltas form as sediment loads decrease in later stages. The document provides details on specific fluvial landforms with diagrams and explanations of their formation processes.

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    The document summarizes key fluvial landforms formed by erosion and deposition of rivers. It describes 3 stages of a river and landforms associated with each stage such as waterfalls, canyons, and river valleys that form during the youth stage. Depositional landforms like alluvial fans, natural levees, flood plains, and deltas form as sediment loads decrease in later stages. The document provides details on specific fluvial landforms with diagrams and explanations of their formation processes.

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    The document summarizes key fluvial landforms formed by erosion and deposition of rivers. It describes 3 stages of a river and landforms associated with each stage such as waterfalls, canyons, and river valleys that form during the youth stage. Depositional landforms like alluvial fans, natural levees, flood plains, and deltas form as sediment loads decrease in later stages. The document provides details on specific fluvial landforms with diagrams and explanations of their formation processes.

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    Borholla College

    Fluvial Landforms

    Submitted for the fulfillment of FYUGP


    Geography (Major)
    Paper: C1- Geomorphology
    Under Dibrugarh University

    Submitted by:
    Name: Probin Mardi
    Semester: 1st Semester ,Rollno.:53
    Department: Geography
    Session: 2023-24
    FLUVIAL LANDFORMS
    Three Stages of a river
    Fluvial landforms in different stages of the river
    FLUVIAL EROSIONAL LANDFORMS
    ❖ Canyon and Gorge
    ❖ River Valleys
    ❖ Waterfall
    ❖ Potholes
    ❖ Stream terraces
    ❖ Structural benches
    ❖ River Meanders
    ❖ Oxbow lakes
    WATERFALL
    ⮚ A waterfall is when a river falls over a
    vertical slope.
    ⮚ It is found in the youth stage of a river where
    there are areas of hard and soft rocks.
    Canyon and Gorge
    ✔ Canyon (US) or
    Gorge (Europe)
    represents very deep
    and narrowhaving very
    valley valley
    s side
    steep
    are mostly
    slopes
    when the
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    process of
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    frequently, retreats
    waterfall
    RIVER VALLEYS
    An elongated lowland
    between ranges of
    mountains, hills, or
    uplands, often
    a river or other
    stream
    running along the bottomhaving

    It is typically a low-lying area of land, surrounded by higher


    areas such as mountains or hills. It can also be seen as a
    path between two mountains, or a depression in a single
    mountain.
    POTHOLES
    • Holes scoured into bedrock by swirling water/sediments
    • Abrasion by sediment which enters a depression;
    bedrock scoured by swirling sediment
    • Water able to erode due to power associated with
    velocity and cavitation; eddies
    STREAM TERRACES
    ❖ These are bench like ledges or flat surfaces that occur
    on the sides of many river valley
    ❖ From a distance they may appear as successions of
    several steps of big natural staircase rising up the river bed
    RIVER MEANDERS
    ❖ Bending in the course of a river
    OXBOW LAKES
    ❖ Lakes formed due to impounding of water in the
    abandoned meander loops
    FLUVIAL DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES

    The deposition of load carried by the streams is


    affected by a variety of factors:
    ❖ decrease in channel gradient,
    ❖ spreading of stream water over larger area,
    ❖ obstructions in channel flow,
    ❖ decrease in the volume and discharge of water,
    ❖ decrease in the velocity of streams,
    ❖ increase in load.
    FLUVIAL DEPOSITIONAL LANDFORMS

    ⮚ Alluvial fans and Cones


    ⮚ Natural Levees
    ⮚ Flood Plain
    ⮚ Channel and Sand bars
    ⮚ Delta
    ALLUVIAL FANS AND CONES
    ❑ Alluvial fans are fan-shaped deposits of water-
    transported material (alluvium)
    ❑ Alluvial fans have gentler slopes than the cones

    a.
    NATURAL LEVEES
    o An embankment of silt and sand built up by a stream
    along both its sides
    o Narrow belt of ridges of low height along the river banks
    o Formed due to deposition of sediments during flood
    periods when the water overtops the river banks and
    spreads over adjoining flood plains
    o Not all the streams build natural levees
    FLOOD PLAIN
    ⮚ An area of low, flat land along a stream or river, formed
    mainly of river sediments and is subject to flooding
    CHANNEL AND SAND BARS
    ❖ An elongate accumulation of sand, lying parallel to the shore
    ❖ An elevated region of sediment that has been deposited by the
    flow
    DELTA
    • The depositional feature of almost triangular shape at
    the mouth of a river debouching either in a lake or a
    sea is called delta
    Delta
    Thank You

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