Explain the various erosional and depositional features formed by a river in its upper course
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Answer:
Erosional land forms include V-shaped valleys, interlocking spurs, waterfalls and gorges. Meanders and oxbow lakes are formed from erosion and deposition. Depositional land forms include floodplains.
Explanation:
The river starts to flow through a broad, level plain with heavy debris brought down from upper and middle courses. ... The work of the river is mainly deposition, building up its bed and forming an extensive flood plain. Land forms like braided channels, floodplains, levees, meanders, oxbow lakes, deltas etc.
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Erosion is the wearing away of the landscape by different agents like water, wind and ice. The eroded material is carried away or transported by water, wind, etc. and eventually deposited. Landforms created because of erosion are called erosional landforms and landforms created because of deposition are called depositional landforms.
Erosional landforms: Valleys, potholes, entrenched Meanders and river Terraces.
Depositional landforms: Alluvi