3. River Processes and Valley Cross Sections
This page introduces river processes, including transportation, erosion and deposition. It looks closely at how these processes combine to shape the river valley and floodplain Syllabus 1.1.5 Processes which operate within a river: • erosion; hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition, solution • transportation; traction, suspension, saltation, solution • deposition. This topic is again vocabulary-heavy, introducing the...