Download What Are A River S Three Stages Gif. The middle of a river's journey, when it gets wider and slows down, is called the middle age. First, it is a youthful river, further down the stream it comes into its mature stage, and even further down the river, at the end, it comes into its old age stage.
These stages are marked by variations in the the youthful stage of the river is when water flow is the quickest.
Just like a human being, a river also goes through the three stages viz young, mature and old. The bottom of the channel is called the bed and the sides of 7. While best known because its lower reaches flow through central london, the river flows through several other towns and cities, including oxford, reading,windsor and berkshire. The river still downcuts though to a much lesser degree than the youthful river does but it also erodes laterally sometimes a river which has gone through all 3 stages of its life will be uplifted by crustal movement of the area over which it flows.