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Topographical Maps
Waterfall and Rapids
A sudden and more or less
perpendicular descent of water from
a considerable height in the bed of a
river is called a waterfall. Sometimes,
a waterfall succeeds or precedes with
a cascading stream forming rapids
CLIFF
upstream or downstream of a
It is a very steep or almost
waterfall. The contours representing
perpendicular face of landform. On a
a waterfall merge into one another
map, a cliff may be identified by the
while crossing a river stream and the
way the contours run very close to one
rapids are shown by relatively distant
another, ultimately merging into one.
contour lines on a map.

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Cliff Waterfall

2015-16(20/01/2015)