River Tees

• Erosional landforms

  • Interlocking spurs
  • Waterfalls
  • Gorges
• Meanders and oxbow lakes

  • Use erosional and depositional processes in their creation
• Examples of erosional and depositional landforms

  • Along the River Tees
• River Tees

  Located in the north of England, source in the Pennines, flows east to the North Sea
• Upper course of River Tees

  Vertical erosion has formed a V-shaped valley
• High Force

  • UK's largest waterfall by volume when in full flow, located in the upper course
• High Force waterfall

  • An area of hard rock (Whin Sill/Whinstone) is located above a layer of soft rocks (sandstone and shale), creating the waterfall
• Middle course of River Tees

  Lateral erosion forms meanders
• Meanders

  • Identified near Barnard Castle in the middle course
• Lower course of River Tees

  Larger meanders and oxbow lakes have formed
• Oxbow lakes


  • Formed near Yarm in the lower course
• Levees


  • Formed when the river has flooded in the lower course near Yarm
• River Tees estuary

  • Large estuary with mudflats and sandbanks, supports wildlife, protected areas like Seal Sands