If a river flows over bedrock, the bedrock restricts widening and lateral mobility which can distort the shape of the bends in the river (Hooke and Yorke 2011). Substrate influences channel form at the reach scale, with bedrock channel found to be narrower and deeper than alluvial channels (Whitbread et al. 2015). This means that the substrate the river is flowing over does have an effect on what the river is doing. The bedrock restricts widening and lateral mobility, which limits how fast the river can meander. If the river is flowing over a substrate that is easily erodible, and then if it erodes down to bedrock the river will become less sinuous.
Meandering rivers are not common in bedrock channels because bedrock channels are narrower and deeper than alluvial channels (Whitbread et al. 2015). The alluvial channels allow the river channel to become wide and therefore the river is able to meander because its channel is so wide. Changing the type of bedrock can influence the width and depth of the river (Whitbread et al. 2015). The maximum width/depth ratio decreases with increasing fracture spacing (Whitbread et al. 2015). This is because the fractures create a weak spot in the rock that allows the river to erode into those fractures. Adding
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The substrate that the river flows over has an effect on the interaction between groundwater and the bottom of the river. If the river is flowing over an impermeable substrate e.g. shale, mudstone, any crystalline rock etc. and then erodes through that impermeable substrate the river could cease to exist. The substrate has a major effect on the river. The substrate can determine what type of river is formed, how much sediment the river is transporting, how much erosion is occurring in the river etc. The substrate is a very import factor when anyone is studying a
Any rainfall increases fluvial erosion. When rain does fall, this creates ephemeral streams causing water erosion due to fast forces of water. Flash floods are possible as well creating even more erosion.
There are coarsening-upward sequences preserved, with flooding surfaces represented by low-relief erosional contact of trough-cross-stratification (runnel) upon low-angle planar bedding (swash zone).
What is the depth of the river? Is the bottom a freestone? Sand. Clay. Silt.
The Sokoki Valley or Connecticut River Valley, was formed over 200 million years ago, when Pangea split and created all seven continents. The river was formed by the melted glaciers of the last Ice Age. The last Ice Age ended about 10,000 to 13,000 years ago. The land was stretched. Geologist are interested in Sokoki valley because of its old bedrock that sits in the river and along it sandy beaches.
In this Geography GCSE controlled assessment project, I will be focusing on rivers and I have chosen a hypothesis to prove that erosion is making an impact on the Loughton Brook Rivers. My hypothesis is, “The river Loughton brook becomes wider and deeper due to erosion as it moves downstream”. I will be investigating if erosion takes place downstream in the river. I will investigate if hydraulic action has an impact. I will study about vertical erosion, lateral erosion, Cross profile and hydraulic action.
There are six different types of water erosion: splash erosion, sheet erosion, rill erosion, gully erosion, valley or stream erosion, and bank erosion. Splash erosion is when raindrops hit soil and small soil particles are displaced. Sheet erosion is when raindrops remove soil in thin layers. During rill erosion, small concentrated flow paths are created. “These paths create a sediment source and delivery system for hillslope erosion. Areas where precipitation rates exceed soil infiltration rates are more prone to this type of erosion. During gully erosion, water flows in narrow channels during or after heavy rains or melting snow. The gullies can erode to considerable depths. Valley or stream erosion is created by water flowing alongside land. It extends downward, deepening a valley, and extending the valley into the hillside. This occurs more frequently
Time after time throughout history we see civilizations succeeding by rivers such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley and the Yellow River. One of the things the rivers provided in Mesopotamia was the “ground is extremely fertile”. The Mesopotamians used the river for irrigation and the rich soil to produce and abundance of resources to support a large population.
The Devon River is clean, freshwater, and well dammed up. It is described as being a small, narrow river fringed by pine and birch (pg. 42) On the other hand, the Naguamsett River is described as muddy and
Another disadvantage was erosion, erosion is when the river eats away at things all around it over time. If a villager built his house(Doc.7)0 on the bank, a landslide could pull it into the river. Erosion could also, over time destroy roads and pathways on it’s banks. This would be very bad for merchants, and tradespeople. Also this is a huge loss of
Most of the river system is located within the Canadian Shield. Roughly twenty kilometers north of Mattice, Ontario is Thunder House Falls where the river cascades off the Canadian Shield and the terrain shifts into sandy lowlands. The rock underneath yourself becomes sedimentary and covered by clays dating back thousands of years (Canoeing Ontario’s Rivers). Some rocky sites, like high ground above Reva Island on Missinaibi Lake have outliers of the Great Lakes St Lawrence Forest, old stands of 350 years old Red and White Pine (Canadian Heritage Rivers Systems). Near the southern end of the river there’s a few locations where granite is joined with very ancient volcanic rocks in places such as Devil’s Shoepack Rapids and Split Rock Falls.
The Mississippi River influences the states of Louisiana in numerous ways. The river can be both beneficial and harmful to the state. It may help with industries, but at the same time it may be harming by taking away from Louisiana’s coastline. While erosion is widely considered to be a destructive occurrence, it does have some necessary features. For example, erosion provides many nutrients for animals living in the water, and it creates new deltas that many animals live in. Since the beginning of Louisiana, the Mississippi River has been a crucial factor in the creation and the development of Louisiana’s economy. It has helped with things like trade and the growth of crops. The Mississippi is also significant in the way Louisiana is shaped
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A river is the same way you can force it to irrigate your crops by creating irrigation canals. Also, they can be used for fishing and ships can trade goods over the water also. When Machiavelli wrote that rivers and men can’t be trusted I also agree with this too, because a man naturally will have a harder time keeping a secret because there is that thrill that only certain people know and they want to be the one to gossip about it. In a different way rivers can’t be trusted because rivers flood unpredictably (unless that river is the Nile) and when it floods it spreads havoc throughout the
There are many reasons for why figure 1 has a strong positive correlation, one of the more obvious reasons for why cross-sectional area increases can be explained by why width and depth also increase as the river travels further away from the source. The river Tillingbourne features a total of 4 tributaries, each tributary has a significant increase on the rivers energy and velocity, the increase in both factors allows the river bed and banks to be eroded as more energy is present to overcome the friction between the channel shape and water. As the river banks widen the width of the river increases, as the river bed deepens the depth also increase resulting in an overall larger cross- sectional
The grief comes from lost love must be recovered by love. In crow lake, the author Mary Lawson portrays a young successful scholar, 26-year-old Kate Morrison, always is bothered by her anguished past. The innermost struggle not only leads she can’t directly face the problem existing between her and her older brother Matt for years but also becomes an obstacle of the further relationship with Daniel, the men she loves. But all the problems are concealed elaborately before the invitation letter received. While the peaceful life is broken by the invitation coming from Matt’s son, her nephew Simon, Kate suddenly has to face all the problems she doesn’t want to face