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Aggradation (or alluviation) is the term used in
geology for the
increase in land elevation,
typically in a
river system, due to the
deposition of sediment...
- stronghold, and now (since 1993) a
nature reserve. The lake
continued to
aggrade (an
increase in land elevation, in this case of the lake bed, due to the...
- Lake Manchar. In
response to the
levees construction, the
river has been
aggrading rapidly over the last 20
years leading to
breaches upstream of barrages...
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imported gravels and
sands upon a
previously uneven surface by the
action of
aggrading rivers and
their outgoing distributaries. The two
sections are also alike...
- from the shelfbreak. When base
levels are
stable or
rising rivers may
aggrade.
Rising base
levels may also
drown the
lower courses of
rivers creating...
- engrailment, gracile,
gracility gradus grad- step aggradation, aggradational,
aggrade, antegrade, anterograde, centigrade, degradable, degradation, degradational...
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spread into
broader channels and
deposited some of
their load, and thus
aggraded their courses.
Local sheets or
aprons of
gravel and sand are
spread more...
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neomorphism exist in petrology:
aggrading neomorphism and
degrading neomorphism.
Neomorphism is
considered aggrading when
recrystallization results in...
- essential. For example, the
Rakaia and
Waitaki Rivers of New
Zealand are not
aggrading, due to
retreating s****lines, but are
nonetheless braided rivers. Variable...
- average, an
avulsion will
occur every time the bed of a
river channel aggrades enough that the
river channel is
superelevated above the
floodplain by...
