• Source: Mountain River

      • A mountain river is a river that runs usually in mountains.
      Mountain River may also refer to:

      Mountain River (Northwest Territories), a stream in Canada
      Mountain River, Tasmania, a settlement in Australia
      Mountain River (album), by Dou Wei

    • Source: Mountain river

      • A mountain river is a river that runs usually in mountains, in narrow, deep valley with steep banks, rocky stream bed, and accumulated rock debris.
      Mountain rivers are characterized by high slope and flow velocity, insignificant depth, frequent rapids and waterfalls, as well as dominated washed out processes. The gradient of a mountain river is calculated at 60–80 m/km in upper stream and 5–10 m/km in lower. More precisely it is greater than or equal to 0.002 m/m along most of its stream length. Speed of stream is measured at 1 to 4.5 m/s and higher.
      Mountain rivers have significant hydro energy producing potential and in arid conditions often used for irrigation.


      See also


      Rapids
      Upland and lowland (freshwater ecology)


      Bibliography


      Marynych, O. Geographical Encyclopedia of Ukraine. "Bazhan Ukrainian Encyclopedia". Kiev 1989.
      Wohl, E. Mountain rivers revisited. "AGU". Washington, D.C. 2010. ISBN 978-0-87590-323-1


      External links


      Electronic copy of the Wohl's book at Google Books

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