Landforms related to rivers and other watercourses include:

  • Channel (geography) – Type of landform in which part of a body of water is confined to a relatively narrow but long region
  • Confluence – Meeting of two or more bodies of flowing water
  • Cut bank – Outside bank of a water channel, which is continually undergoing erosion
  • Crevasse splay – Sediment deposited on a floodplain by a stream which breaks its levees
  • Drainage basin – Land area where water converges to a common outlet (watershed)
  • Esker – Long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel associated with former glaciers
  • Floodplain – Land adjacent to a river which is flooded during periods of high discharge
  • Fluvial landforms of streams
  • Fluvial terrace – Elongated terraces that flank the sides of floodplains and river valleys
  • Canyon – Deep chasm between cliffs (Gorge)
  • Gully – Landform created by running water and/or mass movement eroding sharply into soil
  • Island – Piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water
  • Levee § Natural levees
  • Meander – One of a series of curves in a channel of a matured stream
  • Oxbow lake – U-shaped lake or pool
  • Pendant bar – fluvial landform formed on the downstream side of a weathering-resistant protrusion
  • Plunge pool – Depression at the base of a waterfall
  • Point bar – Landform related to streams and rivers
  • Riffle – Shallow landform in a flowing channel
  • River – Natural flowing watercourse
  • River delta – Silt deposition landform at the mouth of a river
  • River island – Exposed landmass within a river
  • River valley, also known as vale – Low area between hills, often with a river running through it
  • Shoal, also known as bar – Natural submerged sandbank that rises from a body of water to near the surface
  • Spring (hydrology) – Point at which water emerges from an aquifer to the surface
  • Stream – Body of surface water flowing down a channel
  • Stream pool – Deep and slow-moving stretch of a watercourse
  • Waterfall – A point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop
  • Yazoo stream – Hydrologic term

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