river morphology

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• River morphology — is the field of science dealing with changes of river planform and cross section shape due to sedimentation and erosion processes.Morphology is a branch of geomorphology that deals with the forms of natural water bodies such as rivers, lakes,… …   Wikipedia

• Morphology — may mean: Morphology (linguistics), the study of the structure and content of word forms Morphology (biology), the study of the form or shape of an organism or part thereof Morphology (molecular), study of how the shape and form of molecules… …   Wikipedia

• River delta — Nile River delta, as seen from Earth orbit. The Nile is an example of a wave dominated delta that has the classic Greek delta (Δ) shape after which river deltas were named. A delta is a landform that is formed at the mouth of a river where that… …   Wikipedia

• river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …   Universalium

• River shark — Taxobox name = River sharks regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Chondrichthyes subclassis = Elasmobranchii ordo = Carcharhiniformes familia = Carcharhinidae genus = Glyphis genus authority = Agassiz, 1843 subdivision ranks = Species… …   Wikipedia

• River Wensum — Wensum River A tree lined section of the River Wensum as it flows through the city of Norwich, seen in July 2005 …   Wikipedia

• River — For other uses, see River (disambiguation). The Tigris River near Hasankeyf, in southeastern Turkey …   Wikipedia

• Mojave River — Coordinates: 36°06′20″N 116°03′53″W / 36.10556°N 116.06472°W / 36.10556; 116.06472 …   Wikipedia

• Avulsion (river) — In sedimentary geology and fluvial geomorphology, avulsion is the rapid abandonment of a river channel and the formation of a new river channel. Avulsions occur as a result of channel slopes that are much lower than the slope that the river could …   Wikipedia

• Erosion (morphology) — Erosion is one of two fundamental operations (the other being dilation) in Morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are based. It was originally defined for binary images, later being extended to grayscale… …   Wikipedia

• Colorado River Numic language — Colorado River Spoken in United States Region Nevada, California, Utah, Arizona, Colorado Native speakers less than 2000  (date missing) Language family …   Wikipedia