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An area of broken, fast flowing water in a stream, where the slope of the bed increases (but without a prominent break of slope which might result in a waterfall), or where a gently dipping bar of harder rock outcrops.
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(from the article `waterfall`) ...to a series of small falls along a river. Still gentler reaches of rivers that nonetheless exhibit turbulent flow and white water in response to a ... ...flowing (lotic) and exhibit a longitudinal gradation in temperatures, concentration of dissolved material, turbidity, and atmospheric gases, from ... ...
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Rapids are fast-flowing stretches of water formed where the river surface breaks up into waves because rocks are near to the surface.
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A reach of stream that is characterized by small falls and turbulent high velocity water.
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rapids 1. An extremely fast-moving or fast-flowing part of a river, caused by a steep descent in the riverbed. 2. The part of a river where the current moves with more celerity than the common current. A rapids is a section of a river where it loses elevation over a relatively short distance when the stream gradient is locally steepened, causing ...
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Turbulent stream water flow down a steep gradient, but not as steep as in a waterfall.
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