List of fluvial landforms

Landforms related to rivers and other watercourses include:

Channel (geography) – Narrow body of water
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 water body which is flooded during periods of high water
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
Pothole – Natural bowl-shaped hollow carved into a streambed
Riffle – Shallow landform in a flowing channel
River – Natural flowing freshwater stream
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

See also