Rivers can reshape the landscape through processes of erosion and the transport and deposition of materials. Erosion involves the wearing away of rock and soil found along the river bed and banks.

Conduct a field visit to a local river and look for features mentioned in the clip. Students should consider how each feature was formed, by erosion or deposition, by water or another factor.

The shape of rivers and streams changes through time as erosion, deposition, and transport of sediment occurs. Rivers and streams maintain a dynamic equilibrium between discharge, slope ...

The dendritic pattern of removal and deposition by water erosion is also distinctly different from soil movement by excavation equipment (Figure 7). Olson et al. (1994) concluded that adding ...