Bright Angel, Arizona 5. (a) What drainage pattern occurs on the Kaibab Plateau?

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Bright Angel, Arizona 5. (a) What drainage pattern occurs on the Kaibab Plateau? Parallel (b) What drainage pattern dominates in Bright Angel Canyon specifically? Trellis Brandon, Vermont 7. (a) What is the fluvial landform represented by the wetlands along either side of Otter Creek? (Look for the green tree symbol to the left of Brandon, indicating the Brandon Swamp) (b) What fluvial landform probably separates these wetlands from the river? Ennis, Montana 8. (a) What type of channel pattern does the Madison River exhibit? (b) The Cedar Creek Alluvial Fan represents a large deposit of material transported from the local mountains. How could this alluvial fan be affecting the Madison River channel pattern? Guadalupe Peak, Texas 9. (a) What geomorphic name would you apply to Salt Lake? (b) What is the gently sloping area linking Salt Basin and Crow Flats to the Guadalupe Mountains? Menan Buttes, Idaho 10. What is the fluvial landform represented by the crescent shaped sand mounds along the inside of the meander bends of the river (found to the left of Menan Butte)?

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5a The drainage pattern which is developed in Kaibab Plateau is rectangular in which the pattern is affted by faults and joints in the area.

b. Drainage pattern in bright angel canyon is dendritic drainage pattern which is homogenous and gently sloping and not affected much by lihology.

7a. Fluvial landform represented by otter creek is valley and known as Vermont valley lies between Green Mountain to the east and Taconic mountain to the west

8a. The Madison river forms point bars which are characteristic features of meandering rivers. Point bars are the depostional features formed in the inside bend of the meandering rivers.

9a. Geomorphic name apply to salt lake can be playa lake. Playa lakes are those lakes which are formed in arid and semi arid regions. In the playa lakes most of water evaporates leaving surface of salt.

10 Point bars are the depositional landform found in the inside meander bends of meandering rivers.So,the fluvial landform represented by crescent shaped sand mounds along inside of the meander bends of the river are point bars.

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