Stream pool

A stream pool, in hydrology, is a stretch of a river or stream in which the water depth is above average and the water velocity is quite below average.^[1]

1 Formation
2 Habitat
3 See also
4 Notes
5 External links

Formation

A stream pool may be portion of the stream bed that is bedded with sediment or armoured with gravels, and in some cases the pool formations may have been formed as basins in exposed bedrock formations. Plunge pools, or plunge basins, are stream pools formed by the action of waterfalls.

Habitat

This pool portion of a stream often provides specialized aquatic ecosystem habitat for organisms that have difficulty feeding or navigating in swifter reaches of the stream, or in seasonally warmer water. Such pools can be important for juvenile fish habitat, especially where many stream reaches attain high summer temperatures and very low-flow dry season characteristics.

Notes

^ Matthew Chasse, Riffle characteristics in stream investigations

External links

USGS: Stream Modeling website

River morphology

Large-scale features	Drainage basin • Drainage network • Strahler number (stream order) • River valley • River delta

Alluvial rivers	Meander • Meander cutoff • Point bar • Cut bank • Riffle • Stream pool • Braided river • Bar (river morphology) • Anabranch • River bifurcation • River channel migration • Oxbow lake • Floodplain • Riparian corridor • Avulsion (river) • Mouth bar • Thalweg • Channel pattern

Bedrock river	Canyon • Knickpoint • Plunge pool • Bedrock erosion

Bedforms	Lower plane bed • Current ripple • Dune • Upper plane bed • Antidune

Regional processes	Aggradation • Degradation (geology) • Base level • Erosion and tectonics

Mechanics	Playfair's Law • Hack's law • Sediment transport • Water erosion • Deposition (geology) • Exner equation

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Pools	Anchialine pool Brine pool Natural pool Plunge pool Reflecting pool Spent fuel pool Stream pool Swimming pool Tide pool Vernal pool

Puddles	Bird bath Coffee ring Puddle Puddles on a surface Seep puddle

Biota	Beaver pond Common pond skater Common puddle frog Duck pond Fish pond Goldfish pond Koi pond Lotus Pond heron Pond lily Pond snail Pond turtle Pondweed

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Stream pool

Contents

Formation

Habitat

See also

Notes

External links