Conduct a field visit to a local river and look for features mentioned in the clip. Students should consider how each feature was formed, by erosion or deposition, by water or another factor.

River processes – WJEC Deposition. Moving from the upper course of a river to the lower course effects the rates of erosion, transportation and deposition change.

Large wood (LW) in the river corridor (channel/s and surrounding floodplain) influences hydraulics, sediment deposition and erosion pattern, provides habitat and nutrients for biota, and influences ...