Waterfalls close waterfallA vertical cliff of water where the water flows over a layer of hard rock on top of a layer of softer rock. The softer rock is eroded away causing the cliff edge to gradually ...

The river Melinau drains a part of Borneo which has a complete cover of equatorial rain forest. The contemporary river landforms and sediments comprise an integrated assemblage of channel and ...

Crescent dunes and meandering rivers can 'forget' their initial shapes as they are carved and reshaped by wind and water while other landforms keep a memory of their past shape, suggests a new ...

The evolutionary history of fluvial geomorphology is the consequences of combined effects of tectonic, climate, lithology and base level. Previous researches had emphasized tectonic impacts on the ...

Figure 1: A flight of river terraces in the Tian Shan foreland, China. Bedrock rivers set the pace of landscape evolution and form an important connection between Earth's tectonic and climatic systems ...

Mention the word “delta,” and most people will think of an airline or a cinematic fraternity house before they think of the depositional landform found at the mouth of rivers. But, really, you should ...

Erosion, transportation and deposition all occur in a river. Moving from the upper course to the lower course, the rates of erosion, transportation and deposition change. River landforms - AQA ...

Late in the story of Mars, long after its lakes and rivers had faded, something quiet still moved beneath its dusty surface.