When the river loses energy, it drops any of the material it has been carrying. This is known as deposition. The rate of erosion, transportation and deposition varies along a river’s course and ...

Conduct a field visit to a local river and look for features mentioned in the clip. Students should consider how each feature was formed, by erosion or deposition, by water or another factor.

The dendritic pattern of removal and deposition by water erosion is also distinctly different from soil movement by excavation equipment (Figure 7). Olson et al. (1994) concluded that adding ...