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geomorph final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| river | |
| stream permanence | |
| stream order/stahlers classification | -based on # of tributaries -smallest stream w/o tributaries: headwate/1st order -downstream segment of confluence of two 1st order -> 2nd order -stream order increases when 2 streams of same order join |
| hydrological cycle | |
| water balance in drainage basin | |
| precipitation | |
| ground water | |
| drainage basin/watershed | |
| dendritic drainage basin | |
| trellis drainage basin | |
| rectangular drainage basin | |
| radical drainage basin | |
| river flooding | |
| lane's balance | |
| sediment transport | |
| forces on sediment grain in the river | |
| stream discharge | Q = wdv |
| stream gradient | |
| stream base level | |
| stream channel processes | |
| single thread channels | |
| meandering streams | |
| straight channels | |
| floodplains | |
| terraces | |
| alluvial fans | |
| deltas | |
| surface water runoff processes | |
| hydrograph | |
| flooding | |
| flood probability | |
| flood conditions in rivers | |
| river longitudinal profiles | |
| multithread channels | |
| oxbow lakes | |
| braided channels | |
| anabranching | |
| lane's balance | |
| fluvial deposition | |
| channel bars | |
| sediment budgets | |
| coastal morphodynamics | |
| waves | |
| linear wave theory | |
| wave shoaling | |
| wave breaks | |
| nearshore currents | |
| longshore currents | |
| rip currents | |
| storm surge | |
| tides | |
| tsunamis | |
| wave dominated coastal environments | |
| barriers | |
| coastal dunes | |
| tide dominated coastal environments | |
| wave dominated estuaries | |
| estuarine mixing | |
| ebb and flow dominance | |
| salt marshes | |
| mangroves | |
| fluvial dominated coastal environments | |
| erosive coasts | |
| coastal cliffs | |
| shore platforms | |
| coastal zone management | |
| integrated coastal management | |
| embankments | |
| dams | |
| flood measure | |
| 3 aspects of flood management | |
| sorting materials | |
| types of deltas | |
| tides | |
| estuaries | |
| waves | |
| currents | |
| breakers | |
| properties of waves: swell waves | |
| waves approaching land | |
| wave refraction | |
| spits | |
| barrier islands | |
| cliffs/rocky coasts | |
| high latitude coats | -limited impact of waves and tides |
| berms | |
| low relief coasts | |
| high relief coasts | |
| coastal change | |
| properties of snow | |
| formation of glacial ice | |
| alpine glaciers | |
| continental ice sheets | |
| glacial mass balance | |
| accumulation | |
| ablation | |
| glacial movement | |
| glacial surges | |
| glacial erosional landforms | |
| glacial depositional landforms | |
| glacial valleys | |
| fjords | |
| moraines | |
| till plains | |
| glacial outwash | |
| esker | |
| kame | |
| kettle | |
| drumlin | |
| the greenland ice sheet | |
| glacial calving | |
| measuring glacial changes | |
| sea level rise and glaciers | |
| glaciation | |
| deglaciation | |
| interglaciation | |
| ice age | |
| causes of ice age | |
| causes of quaternary glaciation | |
| milankovitch cycles | |
| most recent ice age and glaciation | |
| isostatic adjustment from glacier | |
| glacial classification | |
| ice sheets | |
| ice shelves | |
| ice caps | |
| glaciers confined by topography | |
| niche glaciers | |
| cirque glaciers | |
| valley glaciers | |
| glaciers unconfined by topography | |
| outlet glaciers | |
| piedmont glaciers | |
| nunatak | |
| permafrost | |
| permafrost coverage | |
| trumpet curve | |
| ground ice | |
| ice wedges | |
| thermokarst | |
| expanding agriculture north | |
| beaver expansion | |
| thermokarst in slopes | |
| pingos (open system) | |
| pingos (closed system) | |
| frost action processes | |
| hillslope processes | |
| people and permafrost | |
| pleistocene epoch | |
| paleolakes | |
| polar region changes | |
| glacier dynamics | |
| ductile zone | |
| brittle zone | |
| alpine glaciers | |
| glacial drift | |
| glacial margins | |
| glacial till | |
| outwash plain | |
| glacial meltwater |
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