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August 29, 2003

Fluvial Processes Pre Lab

1. What is Alluvium?

2. What is a drainage basin/watershed?

3. What is a divide?

4. What is headward erosion?

5. What is the mouth of a stream and why is it important?

6. What is gradient?

7. What is base-level?

8. What is discharge?

9. What is load?

10. What is a floodplain?

11. What is a Cut bank?

12. What is a point bar?

13. How do oxbow lakes form?

14. What is mass wastage?