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7 Major Fluvial Depositional Landforms - Carving the Face of The Earth
- 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 Earthีs surficial processes, including human โ 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.
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