Earth:List of fluvial landforms
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Landforms related to rivers and other watercourses include:
- Earth:Channel (geography) – Type of landform in which part of a body of water is confined to a relatively narrow but long region
- Earth:Confluence
- Earth:Cut bank – Outside bank of a water channel, which is continually undergoing erosion
- Earth:Crevasse splay – Sediment deposited on a floodplain by a stream which breaks its levees
- Earth:Drainage basin – Land area where water converges to a common outlet (watershed)
- Earth:Esker
- Earth:Floodplain
- Fluvial landforms of streams
- Earth:Fluvial terrace – Elongated terraces that flank the sides of floodplains and river valleys
- Earth:Canyon (Gorge)
- Earth:Gully – Landform created by running water and/or mass movement eroding sharply into soil
- Earth:Island
- Levee § Natural levees
- Earth:Meander
- Earth:Oxbow lake – U-shaped lake or pool left by an ancient river meander
- Earth:Plunge pool – Depression at the base of a waterfall
- Earth:Point bar – Landform related to streams and rivers
- Pothole – Natural bowl-shaped hollow carved into a streambed
- Earth:Riffle – Shallow landform in a flowing channel
- Earth:River
- Chemistry:River delta – Silt deposition landform at the mouth of a river
- Earth:River island – Exposed landmass within a river
- Earth:River valley, also known as vale
- Earth:Shoal, also known as bar – Natural submerged sandbank that rises from a body of water to near the surface
- Earth:Spring (hydrology) – Point at which water emerges from an aquifer to the surface
- Earth:Stream
- Earth:Stream pool – Deep and slow-moving stretch of a watercourse
- Earth:Waterfall
- Earth:Yazoo stream – Hydrologic term
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