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• The Platte River, in Nebraska, has a peak
  elevation of 1,320 feet, mean sea level (M.S.L.),
  and elevation at the mouth is 760 feet M.S.L.
  Within the basin, there is a mean slope of 3.1
  feet per mile (Committee on Public Works 1965).

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Source

• Where a River starts its journey

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• Springs. Some rivers begin where water flows out
  of rocks.
• Rainwater sinks through the soil and trickles
  through the cracks and spaces in rocks such as
  chalk and limestone.
• Lakes.
• Melting snow and ice.
• Bogs.

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Dishcharge

• The amount of water flowing in a river per second.

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Meander A meander is a bend in a river.
Meanders normally occur in the middle and lower
courses where the water is moving more slowly.
The river carves out S-shaped bends.
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Banks

• are the sides of a river or stream between which
  the water normally flows

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Rivers have two banks - the right bank and the
left bank. If you stand in a river and face the
way the water is flowing, the right bank will be
on your right hand side and the left bank will be
on you left hand side.
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Bed
The river bed is the bottom of the river. It can
be made of stones, pebbles, boulders, rock and
mud
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Braiding

• A braided river course is where the river channel
  splits into several channels. Small islands of
  sand, mud and silt are deposited between these
  channels. Sometimes trees and plants can grow on
  this deposited sediment

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DepositionA river lays down or drops the
sediment or material that it is carrying such as
sand, mud, and small stones or sticks. This often
happens on the inside of meanders, because the
water is flowing slowly.
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Sediment

• The name given to material that has been carried
  by rivers or the sea and then deposited. Sediment
  may be called alluvium if it deposited on the bed
  or a river, it may be called a beach when
  deposited by waves.

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Delta

• A fan-shaped area of sediment built up at the
  mouth of a river