Groundwater & Fluvial Sys...

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- Trace of highest velocity flow down a stream
- Thalweg
- Stream type which wanders back and forth in valley
- Meandering
- Deposit on bank by river breaching stream bed
- Crevass Splay
- Delta which is the result of roughly equal river and wave transport
- Arcuate
- The amount of sediment being carried in water column
- Equilibrium Profile
- Moving sediments down hill
- Transportation
- Gravel left behind by stream
- Lag deposit
- Cut off meander loope
- Oxbow
- Preferred profile of a stream
- Equilibrium profile
- Picking up a sediment
- Entrainment
- Site of least deposition in a meandering stream
- Cutbank
- Deposit terrestrial sediments out onto marriage deposits
- Prograde
- Result to high deposition and low wave dispersal
- Bird foot delta
- The amount of sediment being moved
- Capacity
- Where do you find the fastest flow in any stream flow?
- Sixtenth depth
- Sediments falling out as transport media slows
- Deposition
- Oxbows are back filled with ____
- Clay and Organics
- Trough in which stream flows
- Streambed
- Projection of sand extending away from bank
- Spit
- Spit which cuts off meander loope
- Barrier bar
- Flow regime of water when there is no overlying pressure
- Turbulent
- The physical and chemical break down of rocks
- Erosion
- Second deposit in point bar
- Cross bedded sandstone
- Result of low river and high wave transport
- Bay
- Flow Regime of water under pressure
- Laminar
- Limit of Stream Erosion
- Base level
- Destruction of terrestrial sediment leaving marine deposition
- Retro Grade
- Slope of the land
- Gradient
- Site where most sediments in a braided stream reside
- Transverse bar
- Third deposit in point bars
- Laminar Sands

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