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Upper/ Youthful: River Stage Features Formed Formation of Features Diagram of Feature Picture of Feature

The document describes river landforms formed at different stages of a river's development. In the upper course, interlocking spurs and potholes form as the river meanders and erodes the landscape. Waterfalls and plunge pools form where resistant rock layers create steep slopes. Further downstream, vertical erosion carves deep gorges where erosion is focused in the channel. Rapids occur in steep sections with strong currents.

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Upper/ Youthful: River Stage Features Formed Formation of Features Diagram of Feature Picture of Feature

The document describes river landforms formed at different stages of a river's development. In the upper course, interlocking spurs and potholes form as the river meanders and erodes the landscape. Waterfalls and plunge pools form where resistant rock layers create steep slopes. Further downstream, vertical erosion carves deep gorges where erosion is focused in the channel. Rapids occur in steep sections with strong currents.

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River Stage Features Formed Formation of Features Diagram of Feature Picture of Feature

Rivers begin high up in mountains so


they flow quickly downhill eroding
the landscape vertically. The river
cuts deep notch down into the
landscape by hydraulic action. As the
V-Shaped Valley river erodes downwards the sides of
the valley are exposed to Frost
action, which loosens the rocks and
steepens the valley sides. The river
transports the rocks downstream
causing the channel to become
wider.

Upper/ Youthful As the river erodes the landscape in


the upper course, it winds and bends
to avoid areas of hard rocks. This
Interlocking Spurs creates interlocking spurs, which
look like the interlocking parts of a
zip.

These are rounded, circular shape


hollows formed at the base of
Potholes waterfalls. They are formed by the
process of abrasion; by the dragging,
bouncing and scraping of rocks and
other materials along the river bed
Waterfalls are formed as a result of
differences in the hardness of the
rock strata, along the course of the
river. A band of resistant rock is
underlined by softer or less resistant
rocks. The softer rock erodes away
faster resulting in a steepening of
Waterfall and plunge pool the slope and the formation of
rapids. Further erosion eventually
leads to the formation of waterfalls.
Plunge pools are formed by the
erosional forces of falling water on
the rocks at the base of a waterfall
where the water impacts.

Anywhere large rivers cut down


through layers of rocks, with little
erosion elsewhere to create sloping
Gorges valley sides. The vertical erosion
power of the river in its channel is
more effective when the mass
wasting of the valley sides, resulting
in deep narrow valley.
Rapids occur on any stretch of a river
channel with a very steep gradient
and strong current. They are usually
marked by outcrops of rocks from
Rapids the river bed, miniature waterfalls,
eddies and whirlpools.

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