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Exercises to Examine Classifications

image of photo analysis In the next set of five exercises maps and images will be provided that show a Reach located between points A and B. In each exercise record how various classification schemes would categorize the river Reach. The following schemes will be used:

  1. Young, Mature and Old by Davis
  2. Stream Order by Strahler and Horton
  3. Straight, Meandering and Braided by Leopold, Wolman, Miller and Schumm
  4. Source, Transfer, and Depositional by Montgomery and Buffington

Image courtesy of USGS and ESF

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