Alluvial river
An alluvial river is river in which the bed
and banks are made up of mobile
sediment and/or soil. Alluvial rivers are
self-formed, meaning that their channels
are shaped by the magnitude and
frequency of the floods that they
experience, and the ability of these
floods to erode, deposit, and transport
sediment. For this reason, alluvial rivers
can assume a number of forms based on
the properties of their banks; the flows
they experience; the local riparian
