Multiple Choice
Stream capture refers to
A) the legal process by which a state secures rights to the waters of a river basin.
B) the merging of two streams flowing in the same valley.
C) the process by which one channel erodes through a drainage divide and captures the headwater regions of another stream.
D) the illegal withdrawal of water from a river.
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