Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Chapter 14: Streams and Floods What is the Hydrologic Cycle? What is a Stream? How do Drainage Patterns Reflect Geological Conditions? What Factors Affect Stream Erosion and Deposition? How Does a Stream Erode? How do Streams Transport Sediment? Where do Streams Deposit Sediment? Can We Predict When Floods Will Occur? How Do Stream Valleys Change With Time?

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at The Hydrologic Cycle Figure 14.1

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Longitudinal and Cross-Sections of a Typical Stream Figure 14.2

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Drainage Basins of North America Figure 14.4

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Drainage Patterns Reveal Something About Rocks Underneath Figure 14.5

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Regions of Maximum Velocity in a Stream Figure 14.6

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Stream Velocities at Which Erosion and Deposition of Sediment Occur Figure 14.7

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Channel Shape and Roughness Influence Stream Velocity Figure 14.8

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Channel Width Variations Caused by Rock Type and Obstructions Figure 14.9

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Hydraulic Action Can Loosen, Roll, and Lift Grains from the Stream Bed Figure 14.11

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Sand and Gravel Moving on or near Stream Bed by Traction & Saltation Figure 14.14

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Flood Washes Away Bars in a Stream, Depositing New Bars Figure 14.16

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Types of Placer Deposits Figure 14.17

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Location Map of the Grand Canyon Controlled-Flood Experiment Box 14.1, Figure 1

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Graph of Annual Peak Discharges before (black) and after (blue) Glen Canyon Dam & 1996 Controlled High-Flow Release Box 14.1, Figure 2

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Cross-Section of the Channel Downstream of the Confluence with the Little Colorado River Box 14.1, Figure 3

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at (A) Midchannel Bar (B) Braided Stream Figure 14.18

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at (A) Development of River Meanders and Point Bars; (B) Point Bar Deposit Figure 14.22

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Creation of an Oxbow Lake by a Meander-Neck Cutoff Figure 14.23

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Flood Plains Figure 14.26

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Natural Levee Deposition During a Flood Figure 14.27

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Internal Construction of a Small Delta Figure 14.29

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at (A) Wave-Dominated Delta (B) Tidal-Dominated Delta Figure 14.30

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Alluvial Fan at the Mouth of a Narrow Canyon Figure 14.31

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Annual Peak Discharge for the Red River, MB, from Box 14.3, Figure 1

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Flood-Frequency Curves for the Red River Box 14.3, Figure 3

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Urbanization can Increase the Chance of Floods Figure 14.33

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Flash Flood on Big Thompson River and 1997 Flash Flood in Fort Collins Figure 14.34

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Examples of Flood-Control Structures Figure 14.36

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Downcutting, Mass Wasting, and Sheet Erosion Shape Canyons and Valleys Figure (A) and (C)

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Base Level is the Lowest Level of Downcutting Figure 14.38

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Ungraded and Graded Streams Figure 14.39

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Lateral Erosion Widens Valleys by Undercutting and Eroding Walls Figure 14.40

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Terraces Formed by a Stream Cutting Downward into its Own Flood-Plain Deposits Figure 14.43

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Incised Meanders can Form by Uplift Figure 14.45

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Development of a Superposed Stream Figure 14.46

Chapter 14: Streams and Floods Visit the Online Learning Centre at Answers to Selected Testing Your Knowledge Questions D A C C A A A B E A C B

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