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Yosemite Creek just below Little Yosemite Falls. Photo by Vince Cronin.

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Streams and Surface Water

Reading

Read and study chapter 16

Notes and Handouts

Streams-MainPoints.pdf (pdf file)

Stream-Model-Questions.pdf (pdf file)

Presentation files

--Nothing available at this time. Consult the notes available via the link above.

Smart Figures

16.2 — The hydrologic cycle: https://goo.gl/8IRwFJ

16.4 — Mississippi River drainage basin: https://goo.gl/z6epSn

16.5 — Headward erosion: https://goo.gl/hDFQip

16.11 — The Mississippi near Memphis, Tennessee: https://goo.gl/LkgZXX

16.14 — Channel changes from head to mouth: https://goo.gl/6srX2s

16.16 — Transport of sediment: https://goo.gl/F9TOv1

16.19 — Formation of cut banks and point bars: https://goo.gl/4bXxsu

16.20 — Formation of an oxbow lake: https://goo.gl/J1KomF

16.27 — Development of an erosional floodplain: https://goo.gl/WNfY8s

16.28 — Incised meanders: https://goo.gl/JWM1ib

16.29 — Stream terraces: https://goo.gl/6cDynS

16.32 — Coastal wetlands: https://goo.gl/YuGzP5

16.33 — Formation of a natural levee: https://goo.gl/7ZcsYJ

16.34 — Alluvial fan in Death Valley: https://goo.gl/bqOZ5R

Vocabulary to learn

Consult your textbook or lecture notes for definitions. Remember that the best general source of definitions in geology is the AGI Glossary of Geology.

100-year flood	alluvial fan	annular pattern	backswamp	base flood
base level	braided channel	braided stream	centripetal pattern	channel gradient
channel length	channel width	cutbank	cutoff	delta
dendritic pattern	deranged pattern	discharge	distributary stream/system	drainage basin
drainage boundary/divide	drainage pattern	equipotential surface	escarpment	fault scarp
first-order stream	floodplain	gradient	incised stream	intermittent stream
joint	knickpoint	levee	linear channel	linear stream
meander bend	meander neck	meandering channel	meandering stream	multibasinal pattern
overbank	oxbow	oxbow lake	parallel pattern	perennial stream
point bar	radial pattern	rating function	regular pattern	rule of Vs
second-order stream	sediment load	sinuous channel	sinuous stream	slope gradient
special flood hazard zone	stage	straight channel	stream	stream gage
stream profile	stream system	stream terrace	streamflow	third-order stream
trellis pattern	tributary stream/system	trunk stream	watershed	Yazoo stream

Study Questions

StreamsQs.pdf (pdf file)

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