EES 1030 Lecture 18: 18
11 May 2017
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You should be familiar with channel characteristics as well as with what the stream is doing (eroding vs. transporting vs. depositing). Be able to give examples of ultimate and local base levels. You should be familiar with levees, backswamps, yazoo tributaries, meanders, cutbanks, point bars, cutoffs, and oxbow lakes. Running water: one of the most famous examples. Niagara falls: american and bridal veil falls: 1,060 feet of waterfall across, 176 feet of waterfall down (this is why this place is such an attraction). Canadian horseshoe falls: 2,000 feet of water fall across, 167 feet of waterfall down (vertical drop), volume = 160,000 us gallons/second. So canada wins, but we can see their waterfall really well from our side so there"s that. Distribution of earth"s water: earth"s hydrosphere contains 3. 26 million cubic miles of water! Most of this is stored in the oceans.
