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>Drainage Basin - infiltrate &amp; flow<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Results in - drainage basin to river watershed<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Open System<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Divide - boundaries that determine of river flow<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">11,12,&amp; 11,12,&amp;<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Interfluves = between rivers<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Dambos - tropical, seasonal wet, linear grass covered, shallow<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Chemical Network - Main trunk &amp; tributaries<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Playfair's Law<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Bifurcation<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Stream ordering<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">1st Order-    No tributary<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">2nd Order-    Junction of 2 1st order<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">3rd Order-    Junction of 2 second order<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">4th Order-    Is main trunk - Branching like a tree<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Random &amp; organization of networks predict &amp; describe but don't explain computer<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">simulations<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Strata<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">NE - glacial till - volcanic &amp; metamorphic rock basement<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Joints - tors massive joints of blocks<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Faults, normal, reverse, transform, block<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Melange (mess)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Outcrop evidence (exposed rock)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Folded sedimentary rock - very thin few m to 10km<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Structural benches &amp; cap rock (oil traps)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Mesa &amp; Butte (diameter lessji than height)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Cuesta - Steep scarp, gentle deep slope<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Hogback - symmetrical<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Topographic inversions<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Allochtochthanous terrains - Formed elsewhere &amp; transported<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Domes &amp; Basins -<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Inland Facing Cuestas - downs chalk cliffs or Dover<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Thrust fault folds - maps<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">River Drainage Patterns<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Insequent - small valley or gulley cut<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Consquent- follows land<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Dendrite<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Parallel<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Trellis<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Rectangular<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Multi-basal - Karst or Glacial<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Subsequent - Develop independently of congruent drainage<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">All except - dendrite, parallel or radial<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Antecedent - Maintain valley through mts.<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Superposed - Glacier changes river flow direction<FONT size="+1"> </P
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