overfit stream

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In valley: Misfit streams
…former condition, known as an overfit stream, is relatively rare. An example, described below, occurs where cataclysmic glacial floods invaded valley systems formed by overland flow processes in a non-glacial climatic regime. The more common case is the underfit stream, in which valley morphology indicates a larger ancient stream (see…
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