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    This document outlines the key characteristics of a river's profile from its source in the upper course through the middle and lower courses, including changes in altitude, gradient, discharge, velocity, channel shape, valley shape, erosion and deposition processes, load size and shape, and transport as the river flows downstream.

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    This document outlines the key characteristics of a river's profile from its source in the upper course through the middle and lower courses, including changes in altitude, gradient, discharge, velocity, channel shape, valley shape, erosion and deposition processes, load size and shape, and transport as the river flows downstream.

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    This document outlines the key characteristics of a river's profile from its source in the upper course through the middle and lower courses, including changes in altitude, gradient, discharge, velocity, channel shape, valley shape, erosion and deposition processes, load size and shape, and transport as the river flows downstream.

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    LONG PROFILE of a RIVER

    SOURCE

    UPPER MIDDLE LOWER


    COURSE COURSE COURSE

    ALTITUDE

    BASE
    LEVEL
    (SEA?)

    DISTANCE
    CHANGES DOWNSTREAM
    UPPER COURSE MIDDLE COURSE LOWER COURSE
    GRADIENT
    DISCHARGE
    VELOCITY
    CHANNEL
    SHAPE

    VALLEY
    SHAPE

    PROCESSES
    EROSION
    (VERTICAL-
    LATERAL_
    DEPOSITION

    LOAD (SIZE,
    SHAPE)

    TRANSPORT

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