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Watersheds Unit River Features
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Meandering River
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Meandering Rivers Northern OwensValley, CA Owens River, CA
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Braiding River Son-Kul River, Tien Shan Mtns., Kyrgyzstan
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Braided River Braided stream. Tien Shan Mtns, Kyrgyzstan
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V-shaped Valley
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V – shaped valley
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Rapids
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Delta
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Delta building into lake. SE Alaska. Deltas form wherever rivers encounter standing bodies of water such as lakes or oceans
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Delta Delta and alpine lake Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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Alluvial Fan One Alluvial Fan Two Alluvial Fans
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Erosion
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Water falls
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Oxbow Lake
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Chippewa River. Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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Mississippi River It flows through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Minnesota Length 6020 kilometres Number of tributaries250 Source Montana, USA. Mouth Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico
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Amazon River Continent South America It flows throughPeru, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia Length 6275 kilometres Number of tributaries Over 200 Source Lago Villafro in the Andes Mountains, Peru Mouth Brazil into the Atlantic Ocean (delta)
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Susquehanna River
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Sources http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/geo graphy/rivers/RiverArticles/rivart.htmhttp://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/geo graphy/rivers/RiverArticles/rivart.htm http://www.uoregon.edu/~millerm/depenv. htmlhttp://www.uoregon.edu/~millerm/depenv. html http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclop aedia/hutchinson/m0035488.html
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