3. River Processes and Valley Cross-Profiles
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: As we learned on the last page, the river channel changes from source to mouth. The channel gets wider and deeper, and the river flow gets faster downstream. These changes are a result of...