Why Depositional Landforms Occur Along the Course of A River
Rivers have three courses. The course is the journey the river makes
to reach the sea. Rivers never have a straight course from source to
mouth. Their course is always irregular. Along this course
depositional landforms can occur. Landforms can be formed from the
deposition of weathered and eroded surface materials. On occasion,
these deposits can be compressed, altered by pressure, heat and
chemical processes to become sedimentary rocks.
This includes landforms with some of the following geomorphic
features: beaches, deltas, floodplains, and glacial moraines. The
upper course is found in the mountains and hills where the river rises
from its source and often waterfalls and rapids are also found in this
course. The river is usually fast flowing in the upper course; also
there are lots of stones and boulders for the water to flow over.
Furthermore, the river starts as astream in the upper course and flows
through valleys. The middle course, however, is where the river starts
to become wider and deeper. The land, which the river flows over, is
becoming flatter and this is where the river starts to meander or bend
in the middle course. The lower course is where the river becomes its
widest and deepest. This course is found closest to the sea where the
river has its mouth. The flat area of land by the riverbanks is known
as a floodplain. Sometimes a river can also have an estuary or a delta
as its mouth. This is due to the following.
Rivers and its landforms are formed and moulded over time chiefly by
the processes of erosion, and by the transport and deposition of
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... crescent shaped lakes formed in an
abandoned meander river bend by a meander cutoff. Oxbow lakes are
lakes or ponds found in association with river channels. When a river
channel becomes obstructed by silt and debris, the river will often
cut a new channel around the obstruction. With time the obstructed
area may become completely cut off from the river and begin developing
as a lake. Over time an oxbow lake may become filled with organic
material and be transformed into a marsh.
In conclusion hydraulic variables and physical variables
(relief/climate) aid the development of depositional landforms along a
river. The more turbulent a river is, the more it will occur. The
turbulence differentiates through the three courses; upper, middle and
lower. This results in different landforms occurring at different
stages.
Glacial Lake Peterborough had many attributing spillways attached to it, feeding meltwater and sediment from the ice margin and or other glacial lakes. Much of the sediment that was deposited in Glacial Lake Peterborough came from either from the stagnant ice blocks located on the Oak Ridges moraine or from the Lake Algonquin drainage system. Much of the deposition in this lake was dominated by sediment stratification, which may have been largely influenced by thermal stratification. As a result of thermal stratification occurring in this glacial lake sediment inputs were greatly influenced depending on the different sediment densities between the lake bottom water to that of the incoming meltwater and if the inflow density was less/more than the bottom water than the lake water bottom, than new transport and depositional paths were created
As can be seen from the photo( Image 1), looking downstream, there were steep sections of bank where it appeared the erosive forces of the river when high have cause part of the bank to fall away leaving steep about 1m high drops on the bank with exposed rocky soil visible. The phenomenon also illustrate that it is an alluvial landforms, which will find erosional feature from fluvial
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Short-term general scour develops during a single or several closely-spaced floods. Long-term general scour has a considerably longer time scale, normally of the order of several years or longer, and includes progressive degradation and lateral bank erosion. Progressive degradation is the quasi-permanent general lowering of the riverbed due to hydrometeological changes, geomorphological changes, or human activities. Lateral shifting of channel banks can lead to the bridge being outflanked by the river or to undermining of the abutments. Banks erosion may result from channel widening, meander migration, a change in the river controls or a sudden change in the river course. The long-term general scour may not be significant during the design life of a bridge if the rate of scour development is relatively slow. The effects of long-term general scour can be felt suddenly however, e.g. through the formation of a cut-off near the bridge
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We traveled to the west coast of Wales to find out how a river changes
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