Geomorphology notes

A drainage basin is the area of land drained by a river and all its tributaries. Rain that falls inside the basin eventually reaches that river (or is stored as soil water or groundwater). The high…

Fluvial processes are the work of a river: erosion, transport and deposition. Together they cut the valley, move the stream load, and build landforms from the source to the mouth. This section…

Part 2 is about change through time: how a river moves towards a graded long profile, what happens when base level falls or land rises (rejuvenation), how one stream can steal another’s water (river…

A river is only as healthy as the whole basin that feeds it. Catchment (river) management is the planned use of land, water and vegetation in a drainage basin so that water quantity, quality and…