Like much of the world’s major
streams, those of the Edmonton Larchlands are a part of a drainage system that
will inevitably flow into the oceans as opposed to a closed basin. A loss in
stream capacity during its latter course, without the presence of proper slope,
brings an end to the degradation process and starts aggrading, setting up
alluvial landforms. The meanders seen in
the picture are bends in the stream channel where erosion occurs, deposition happening
on the inside of the meanders while erosion takes place on the outer sides.
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