Rivers

Rivers

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river.

Contributors in Rivers

Rivers

A landform that is formed at the mouth of a river where that river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, flat arid area, or another river. Deltas are formed from the deposition of the ...

subterranean

Water bodies; Rivers

This is a river that runs wholly or partly beneath the ground surface one where the riverbed does not represent the surface of the Earth (rivers flowing in canyons are not classed as subterranean. ...

meander

Water bodies; Rivers

This is a bend in a sinuous watercourse.

sediment

Water bodies; Rivers

A naturally-occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of fluids such as wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of ...

glacier

Water bodies; Rivers

A large persistent body of ice. Originating on land, a glacier flows slowly due to stresses induced by its weight. A glacier forms in a location where the accumulation of snow and sleet exceeds the ...

peneplain

Water bodies; Rivers

A low-relief plain representing the final stage of fluvial erosion during times of extended tectonic stability. The existence of peneplains, and peneplanation as a geomorphological process, is not ...

channel types

Water bodies; Rivers

A wide variety of river and stream exist in limnology. All these can be divided into two groups by using the water-flow gradient as either low gradient channels for streams or rivers with less than ...