Long and Cross profile
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- Created on: 05-04-14 14:58
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- A Rivers Long Profile and Cross Profile Vary
- The path of the river as it flows downhill is called the course
- Rivers have a upper course this is near the source of the river a middle course and a lower course- near the mouth of the river
- Rivers flow in channels in the valley
- The river erodes material and wear it down the the material gets transported and deposited somewhere else
- The shape of the valley and channel changes along the river depending on whether erosion and deposition is having the the most impact
- The long profile of a river shows you how the gradient changes over the different courses
- The cross profile shows you what a cross section of a river looks like
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