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badlands
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-caused when easily eroded materials are washed away in such quantities
-large areas of topography created by erosion. |
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badlands are also called
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erosional hills or mountains
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Rivers and valleys instability
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-climate
-hydrologic -river banks -vegitation systems |
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Rivers are
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dynamic environments
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Physical processes cause
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meandering streams
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meandering streams
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the most commom form of river channels
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oxbow lakes
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are lakes formed when meandering stream's loops eventually become too large and are separated from the main channel
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oxbow lakes are eventually filled with
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sediment
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the inside bends of meanedering streams are
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shallower and sites of deposition
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the outer bends of meandering streams are
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deeper and faster and sites of erosion
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meandering streams can appear to have
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many channels called braided channels
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braided channels are caused by
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excessive deposition and are extremely instable environments
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