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7 Major Fluvial Depositional Landforms - Carving the Face of the Earth

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Created from combinations of specific sedimentary processes and depositional environments.
Two major categories
- Overbank
- Lateral accretion mechanisms
Influenced by drainage basin and local hydraulic controls.
Provide linkages to a diverse range of Earth's surficial processes, including human–environment interaction.
Active landforms include alluvial fans, terraces, deltas, and floodplains.

Subdivided into natural levees, channel bars, backswamps, infilled channels, and crevasse deposits. Fluvial terraces are relict floodplains above active river valleys
Key information to understand fluvial adjustment to past hydroclimatic regimes.
Fluvial-dominated deltas- sandy river mouth deposits transported as bed load.
Applications in economics, flooding, and environmental management and restoration.

-Manishika