In this document you will find everything you need to know about Physical landscapes. It will explain:
waterfalls, gorges, formation of Levees, meanders and Ox-bow lakes, floodplains and levees, flooding, river processes, stages of a river, managing floods, deposition, waves, weathering, mass mov...
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