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| November 1, 2013 | |
| Continuation of Fluvial Processes | |
| Wind / Deserts (brief) | |
| Coastal Geomorphology (brief) |
| Fig 14.5 Drainage basins & continental divides, p. 403. |
| Figures 14.3, p. 402. |
| Figure 14.4 A drainage basin system, p. 402. |
| Fig 14.12 Fluvial Transport, p. 409. |
| Dissolved & suspended load |
| Fluvial Animations |
| Abrasion, near Austin, TX |
| Fresh cavitation |
| Fig 14.10 Effects of Stream Discharge (2006, p. 440). |
| Fig 14.10 Stream Channel Flood Response, p. 408. |
| Fig. 14.12a Slow velocity, but Turbulent flow |
| Fig 14.18 Stream Longitudinal Profile,p. 413. |
| Stream velocity profiles |
| Meander growth |
| Meander belt axis |
| Fig 14.14 Meandering Stream Profile, p. 410. |
| Features of stream floodplain |
| Fig 14.23 Floodplain Features, p. 417(a,b,c), p. 417. |
| Fig 14.9 Drainage Patterns, p.406 (old Fig 14.9, 2006, p. 439 |
| Stream Drainage patterns |
| Figure 14.8 Highly Dissected Drainage, p. 406. |
| Rill & Gully formation |
| Dendritic drainage pattern |
| (Somewhat like) a Parallel drainage patterns - Oahu |
| Dendritic drainage pattern -Sonora, Mexico |
| Radial Drainage - Koko Head |
| Fig 14.15b Meandering Stream Development, p. 411. |
| Fig 14.16a FiItkillik River, Alaska, p. 411. |
| Fig 14.16 Meandering Stream Features, p. 412. |
| Meanders - Montana |
| Outside meander - Hocking River, Ohio |
| Serious fluvial erosion
created by arching upward of Kaibab plateau - North Rim of Grand Canyon |
| South Rim, Grand Canyon -
meanders notice steep banks outside meanders & deposition on insides of meanders |
| Don River, Rostov-na-Donu, Russia - notice low left bank on inside of meander and high right bank on outside meanders |
| Braided stream from Caucasus Mtn. glacial meltwater - Vladikavkaz, Checheniya |
| Volga River, Tver, Russia, deranged drainage pattern |
| Yakima River, steep outside
meanders, deposition floodplains on inside of meanders |
| Sarna River entrenched meander, Friberg, der Schweiz |
| Sarna River, undercutting of bank on outside of meander |
| Meanders on Gauya River, Latvia |
| Central pivot irrigation circle and meanders streams / rivers, Montana |
| Small meandering stream in
metamorphic rock terrain, Wind River Mtns., Wyoming |
| Minnesota River valley, back water swamp/lake, oxbow lake |
| Entrenched meanders - Little Colorado River, Arizona |
| Classic entrenched meanders, San Juan River, Utah |
| Fig. 14.19a entrenched meanders (San Juan River, Utah), p. 413. |
| Fig. 14.19(b) Meanders -HallŐs Creek - Waterpocket Fold, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, p. 413. |
| Cross-bedding, Navaho sandstone, Zion NatŐl Park |
| Entrenched meander - Colorado River, Page, Arizona |
| Rhine River graben |
| Grand Canyon, Bright Angle Fault |
| Eroded landscape, Grand Canyon, North Rim |
| Waimea Canyon, Kauai, Hawaii, eroded landscape in basaltic layers |
| Fig. 14.17 Rivers make poor political boundaries, Carter Lake, Iowa, cutoff meander, |
| Fig 14.20 Nickpoint interrupt a stream profiles, p. 414. |
| Sequences of events in nickpoint retreat upstream |
| Fig. 14.21 Retreat of Niagara Falls, p. 415. |
| Niagara River gorge from Canadian side |
| Horseshoe Falls, Niagara Falls |
| Lower Falls of Yellowstone River, resistant volcanic dike forms natural dam like feature, below falls water and chemical weathering rapidly dissect / erode weakly resistant rhyolite |
| Figure 14.22 Mississippi RiverŐs shifting meanders through history, p. 416. |
| Fig. 15.17 An alluvial fan,
p. 447. |
| Figure 14.27 Classic Delta, Nile River Delta, p. 420. |
| The Nile River Delta |
| Figure 14.28 Mississippi River delta, p. 421. |
| Bridal Vale Falls, Yosemite |
| Natural levees, Hana Pepii Valley, Kauai |
| Micro-alluvial fans, Minnesota |
| Micro-alluvial fans and micro delta |
| Surface of alluvial fan, Death valley |
| Underfit stream, ND |
| Braided stream Jasper, Canada |
| Fig. 14.14a Chitina River, Alaska Braided stream excessive sediment load associated with glacial meltwaters, Geosystems, 6th edit., p. 444. |
| Fig 14.13 Braided Stream, Brahmaputra River,
south of Lsasa, Tibet, p. 410. |
| Fig 14.25 Alluvial Terraces (Rakaia River, New Zealand), p. 418. |
| River terraces, Morocco |
| Snoqualamie Falls |
| Snoqualamie River Meanders |
| Snoqualmie River - flooding December 2007 |
| Snoqualamie floodplain flooded - Dec. 2007 |
| Snoqualamie River flooding - Dec. 2007 |
| Snoqualamie valley flood - Dec, 2007 |
| Lake Sammamish, looking south, carved by glacial ice |
| River terrace, Umpqua River, Oregon |
| River terrace, Alaska |
| Fig 14.26 Ganges River Delta, p. 419 |
| Fig. 14-24 Ganges River enters the Bay of Bengal, Geosystems, 4th edit., p. 423. |
| Fig 14.32 Streamflow Measurement, p. 425. |
| Fig 14.33 Effect of urbanization on a typical stream hydrograph, p. 428. |
| Fig. 14.3.1 The Great Flood of 1993, will this yearŐs Mississippi River floods be worse??? |
| Sunset on fluvial processes: Amur River, Khabarovsk, China in the distance |