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Remants of former floodplains of the San Juan River in Utah stand as stream terraces above the river's modern level in this 1927 photo. | | floodplains | San Juan River | Utah | floodplains | stream | downcut | plateaus | base level | drainage basin | headward erosion | tributaries | headwaters | glaciation | drainage basins | Eroded alluvial fill 60 feet thick at Kanab Creek, Kane County, Utah. In 1884 the stream ran at top of the terrace. 1939 photo by United States Geological Survey. | | Kane County, Utah | United States Geological Survey | alluvium | bed load | glaciation | carrying capacity | erosional | depositional | downcutting | equilibrium | Unpaired stream terraces on the South Fork of the Shoshone River, Park County, Wyoming, 1923. The river at left has encountered a formation of erosion-resistant volcanic breccia, causing it to downcut more rapidly on the right, leaving terraces of different elevations. | | Shoshone River | Park County, Wyoming | 1923 | breccia | ISBN 0-13-669762-3 | ISBN 0138609586 | ISBN 0632043865 | Categories | Mountain and glacial landforms | Fluvial landforms |
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