a knickpoint or nickpoint is part of a river or channel where there is a sharp change in channel bed slope, such as a waterfall or lake. Knickpoints reflect...

when a downstream knickpoint erodes its way upstream to a lake which establishes base level for its tributaries. When the knickpoint reaches the lake,...

Headcuts are a type of knickpoint that, as the name indicates, occur at the head (upstream extent) of a channel. The knickpoint, where a head cut begins...

most commonly used in the plural where there is no single point source. Knickpoint The point on a stream's profile where a sudden change in stream gradient...

water flows. Where softer or fractured rock has been eroded back to a knickpoint, water continues to bombard its base. Because this rock is often less...

migration River mouth Slip-off slope Stream pool Thalweg Bedrock river Canyon Knickpoint Plunge pool Bedforms Ait Antidune Dune Current ripple Regional processes...

Rapids Scott's Run Scott's Run Nature Preserve Stubblefield Rapids and Knickpoint (paleo falls ~200 kya) End of Mather Gorge American Legion/Cabin John...

combination of geology, stream volume, and coastal recession rate creates a knickpoint, usually starting at a waterfall at the cliff edge, that initiates rapid...

with an angle of 15° to nearly vertical. This creates a well-defined knickpoint at the base of the higher terrain. The lower part of the pediment may...

migration River mouth Slip-off slope Stream pool Thalweg Bedrock river Canyon Knickpoint Plunge pool Bedforms Ait Antidune Dune Current ripple Regional processes...

in base level can trigger re-adjustments in river profiles including knickpoint migration and abandonment of terraces leaving them "hanging". Base level...

migration River mouth Slip-off slope Stream pool Thalweg Bedrock river Canyon Knickpoint Plunge pool Bedforms Ait Antidune Dune Current ripple Regional processes...

migration River mouth Slip-off slope Stream pool Thalweg Bedrock river Canyon Knickpoint Plunge pool Bedforms Ait Antidune Dune Current ripple Regional processes...

migration River mouth Slip-off slope Stream pool Thalweg Bedrock river Canyon Knickpoint Plunge pool Bedforms Ait Antidune Dune Current ripple Regional processes...

Debris flow Deposition Dissolved load Downcutting Erosion Headward erosion Knickpoint Palaeochannel Progradation Retrogradation Saltation Secondary flow Sediment...

Debris flow Deposition Dissolved load Downcutting Erosion Headward erosion Knickpoint Palaeochannel Progradation Retrogradation Saltation Secondary flow Sediment...

The Hundru Falls is an example of a Knick point caused by rejuvenation. Knickpoint, also called a nick point or simply nick, represents breaks in slopes...

basalt layer rested atop the loose material below. At this point, the knickpoint became relatively stable, with the overhanging basalt protecting the loose...

therefore reduce productivity. The dams in front of reservoirs act as knickpoints-the energy of the water falling from them reduces and deposition is a...

layers comprising the surrounding Snake River Plain, creating a natural knickpoint that resists water erosion. The falls themselves were created quite suddenly...

primarily in areas of Dutch influence in the northeastern United States. knickpoint 1.  A point of abrupt inflection in the longitudinal profile of a river...

Debris flow Deposition Dissolved load Downcutting Erosion Headward erosion Knickpoint Palaeochannel Progradation Retrogradation Saltation Secondary flow Sediment...

(Wisconsin-Minnesota). The structure of the Cascade Falls has an undercutting knickpoint. The knick point is created by the flow and splash of water, which will...

faces of a hanging valley, coastal cliff, or any other escarpment or knickpoint. They may be permanent or ephemeral; many alpine waterfalls form seasonally...

the 190 feet high clifftop next to the Isle of Wight coastal path to a knickpoint approximately halfway down the cliff face above Chale Bay beach. The chine...

Lumpenproletariat Mittelstand Takt Wirtschaftswunder Hinterland Inselberg Knickpoint (German Knickpunkt, from knicken "to bend sharply, fold, kink"), a point...

soft Cretaceous rocks. It leads from the 190 foot high clifftop to a knickpoint approximately halfway down the cliff face above Chale Bay beach. The Chine...

Asbury, J.L., Rearic, D.M. & Ross, C.R. (1987). Ice erosion of a sea-floor knickpoint at the inner edge of the stamukhi zone, Beaufort Sea, Alaska. Marine Geology...

streamlined islands), other formations (such as the inner channels, knickpoints and terraces) have traditionally been interpreted through the “long ago...

settling and development of Hildenbrandia. Therefore, it often occurs on knickpoints, boulders, gravel, as well as on artificial substrates like the infrastructure...