They are often occupied by elongated lakes of underfit 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 small for either its valley or meanders, it is known as an "'underfit stream " '.
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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
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A section of the river is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, as it " played a significant role in the development of the theory of underfit streams that related change in stream activity to postglacial climatic change and reduced discharges ."