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The Graded Stream Animation
This site features a narrated QuickTime animation of graded streams. It discusses relationships between stream water level and high and low water velocity, erosion, bedload transport, deposition and floods. This visualization is from Chapter 17 (Fluvial Processes and Landforms) of the animations section of the Instructor Companion Site for the Wiley Higher Education textbook (ISBN 0-471-23800-7) Physical Geography: Science and Systems of the Human Environment, Second Edition by Alan Strahler.
Intended for grade levels:
  • High (9-12)
  • College (13-14)
Type of resource:
  • Visual:
    • Illustration - scientific
Subject:
  • Geological Sciences:
    • Geology
  • Hydrology
Technical requirements:
QuickTime plug-in
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
Copyright 2000-2004 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
DLESE Catalog ID: SERC-NAGT-000-000-000-830
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Publisher: Wiley Higher Education North America Corporate Headquarters