What is 'Drainage Basin Relief?'

CHL

Reply 1

The relief of a drainiage basin.

Reply 2

Rob24601

If you dont know what relief means, it refers to the landscape of the region (ie. is it mountainous, flat). And it just refers to this in terms of the area of land within the drainiage basin.

Reply 3

undiscovered

CHL

How flat or steep the land of the drainage basin is.

Reply 4

chrisbphd

It means the topography of the drainage basin. Obviously, the topography will affect the quality and speed of drainage.

CHL

the uppy downyness of the drainage basin :biggrin:

Reply 7

will182

And a drainage basin i would guess has a generally low flat relief, so i would say that the "drainage basin relief" is in fact the relief of anywhere that has a relief simular to that of drainage basin?

Besides the point, doesnt drainage basin have to be in a low peice of land, ie a valley?