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River Tees - Coggle Diagram
River Tees
Upper course
Limited land use
600m altitude at source (moorland)
Annual rainfall of 1200mm at source
River
Carrying lots of larger sediment
Narrow and shallow
Many obstacles and blockages
Reservoir created (Cow Green)
High levels of errosive energy (mainly vertical)
High Force waterfall with gorge
U shaped valley (erroded by river)
Interlocking spurs
Middle Course
Farmland
Smaller bed load size but more of it
Fewer valleys/more floodplains
Meanders
Oxbow lake
Upper Course
Artificial changing of the river
River at widest and deepest and fastest
Land mainly used for industry (iron and steel works)
Facts
100km long
Flow rate of 20m^3 per second