32. Slopes and Streams

Connection of Whitemud Creek and Blackmud Creek, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. May 2014.

Streams

In this picture, it shows that the Whitemud Creek and Blackmud Creek are emerging into one, in which the creek continues as the Whitemud Creek. Blackmud Creek in this case a tributary of the Whitemud Creek. To originate a river there must be rain in the field, flowing to the lower regions. This sheet flow is not absorbed by soil, but overtime it can potentially erode the soil surface and removes the nutrient-rich topsoil.