The diminutive Gavenny is now something of a misfit stream in its broad valley.
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These are referred to a misfit streams.
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The term misfit stream is often incorrectly used as a synonym for an underfit stream.
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If the misfit stream is too large for either its valley or meanders, it is known as an "'overfit stream " '.
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If the misfit stream is too small for either its valley or meanders, it is known as an "'underfit stream " '.
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A "'misfit stream "'is a river that is either too large or too small to have eroded the valley or cave passage in which it flows.
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The Western Cleddau is an example of a " misfit stream " : the valley is deep, often spectacularly so, although the stream that flows in it is small.
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An underfit stream is a type of misfit stream whose discharge is too small to be correlated with either existing channel characteristics, i . e . meander radius, wavelength and channel width, or valley size