Youth Stage
- Streams are few during this stage with poor integration and flow over original slopes.
- Downcutting predominates over lateral corrasion.
- Major features are V-shaped valleys, gorges, canyons, waterfalls, and rapids.
Mature Stage
- Streams are plenty with good integration.
- Lateral corrasion tends to replace vertical corrasion.
- Major features are oxbow lakes, meanders, and floodplains.
Old Stage
- Vertical corrasion almost ceases in this stage though lateral corrasion still goes on to erode its banks.
- Streams meander freely over vast floodplains. Divides are broad and flat with lakes, swamps, and marshes.
- Depositional features predominate in this stage.
- Characteristic features of this stage are floodplains, oxbow lakes, natural levees, Deltas, etc.
