When a river flows through a line of weakness. This could be a fault line or a line of less resistant rocks.
When a river maintains it's course across a landscape that is being slowly uplifted.
When the river flows across a plateau of horizontal and alternate layers of resistant rocks.
Faimus answered the question on January 6, 2018 at 13:35
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