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Big rivers of the world have been long utilised as a natural resource, and in the process many of them have been physically modified by anthropogenic activities (Chapter 8). The Amazon, however, remains in near-natural conditions, unmodified by anthropogenic activities. This summary of the geomorphology of the river is based primarily on Dunne et al. (1998), Mertes and Dunne (2007), and Meade (2007). The ecology of its floodplain is discussed in detail by Junk et al. in Chapter 5 of this book.