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What"s going on in this photo: rock flour from glaciers, erosion of material alluvial (sediments deposited by rivers) fan. Goal: identify drainage basin and channel patterns and processes: basin analysis, channel pattern, channel anatomy and landforms, exercise 2 intro. Soil moisture: moisture content expressed as % weight or % volume, when all the water (that can) has drained from the soil by gravity, the soil is at field capacity. A field definition is the amount of water remaining in the soil 2 to. 3 days after a soaking rainfall or irrigation when evaporation from the surface has been prevented: in the lab, we place a saturated soil sample on a porous ceramic plate and apply. Floods: flooding is when the flow of a river channel (the discharge q) exceeds the capacity of the channel. First, the study of drainage networks and their patterns at the drainage basin scale (drainage patterns, drainage network analysis, longitudinal profiles) drainage basins.
