GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A confluence occurs when two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel. Confluences occur where a tributary joins a larger river, where two rivers join to create a third or, where two separated channels of a river, having formed an island, rejoin downstream.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definition. Confluence of rivers is defined as a meeting point of two or more rivers. In other words it usually refers to the point where a tributary joins a major river, called the mainstream.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mesopotamia is known as the “land between two rivers".

Detailed explanation-4: -In Hindu tradition, Triveni Sangam is the confluence (Sanskrit: sangama) of three rivers that is also a sacred place, with a bath here said to flush away all of one’s sins and free one from the cycle of rebirth.