The base level of a river is the elevation of its outlet, below which it cannot cut: the sea, a lake, or the trunk river it joins. A knickpoint is a place where the gradient of a river’s long profile increases abruptly, from a steepened reach to a waterfall.
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什么是 Base level and knickpoint?
又称: base level · knickpoint