The law of basin areas indicated that the mean basin area of successive ordered streams formed a linear relationship when graphed.
水系型式(Drainage patterns): 地图上所示河
Pictures showing the geomorphologic & hydrologic characteristics of rivers & streams
Pictures showing the geomorphologic & hydrologic characteristics of rivers & streams
Gross features of a river corridor
河流廊道river corridor横截面,三个主要部分--河道、河漫滩、陡岸可被构造细部和植物群落进 一步细分(图中垂直尺度和河道宽度被夸大了)。
不同地区(a) 和 (b)河廊的 3 个主要组成部分。 尽管具体特征可能随地区而异,大多数河谷包括河 道、河漫滩和过渡的高地边缘.
A fast mountain stream. The gradient is steep and the bottom is largely bedrock.
A slow stream is deeper and has a lower slope gradient.
The mouth of the Amazon, the world’s largest river
B. A diagram of heterogeneity of a tropical floodplain (from Welcomme, 1979)