CASE STUDY - River Eden

• Location

  North west England

  • source is in hills in south Cumbria
  • Mouth is at the Scottish border
• 4 landforms formed by geomorphic processes:

  • waterfalls
  • Meanders
  • V-shaped valleys
  • Floodplains
• waterfalls

  Hell Gill Force is a waterfall near the source of the river

  • hard rock: limestone
  • soft stone: sandstone
• meanders

  lots of tributaries join the River Eden, making it bigger and giving it more power to erode the river channel sideways

  • lots near Salkeld
• floodplains

  Carlisle is built on a floodplain of the river Eden

  • land is low lying and flat, around 100m above sea level
  • Meanders have migrated across the valley floor, making the floodplain wider