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Location #4 Exercise

USGS blended topographic map and photo

Exercise Objective

To apply various complimentary FGM based classifications to maps and imagery of Valley areas and river Reaches.

Exercise Process

Download and view maps and images for location #4.
  1. Image #4A
  2. Image #4B
  3. Image #4C

Consider and record how this location between D and E would be classified using the four systems below. Note that this Reach is immediately downstream of the Reach C to D in the earlier slide.

  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

Revisit the classification schemes as described earlier in Section 4 if they are unclear.

Image courtesy of USGS

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