摘要
In recent years, the flow of the Yellow River has often been interrupted, which has resulted in exposure of chan-nel bars and point bars, and even extensive exposure of the riverbed. Consequently, a large number of rill marks have devel-oped. They are diverse in morphology. According to the hydrodynamic types of their formation, they can be grouped into 6categories, i.e.the wave-eroded, backwash, seepage, rain-eroded, water-drainage and runoff rill marks. Morphologically,they can be divided into more than ten types: the linear, tooth-shaped, comb-shaped, fence-like, ear-like, braided,branched, leaf-like, flower-like, root-like, dendritic, net-like, radial etc. Their cross sections include the broad-u type (thewidth/depth ratio is over 2, and may reach 10-20) , U-type (width/depth ratio from 1 to 2) , V-type, Ω-type and (-type.Their occurrenoes may be attributed to the variations in composition, grain-size, color, fabric and morphology. They have 5 .scales: the micro-scale (length and width within 1 cm) , small-scale (length and width within 10 cm), medium-scale (lengthand width ranging from 10-100cm) , large-scale (length and width 1-5 m) and giant-scale (length or width over 5 m).