Sinuous, meandering streams produce diverse and wildlife-rich habitats and are the aim of many river restoration efforts, but until now, the bank, water flow and sediment conditions required to ...

Jessica A. Zinger, Bruce L. Rhoads, James L. Best. Extreme sediment pulses generated by bend cutoffs along a large meandering river. Nature Geoscience , 2011; DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1260 Cite This Page : ...

It would take nearly 250 years of bank erosion ... "The first kilometer-long channel was cut ... "Extreme Sediment Pulses Generated by Bend Cutoffs Along a Large Meandering River," is available ...

If a river has a chance, it will meander, winding over the land in a series of loops. Geologists even call the loops, meanders. You can see meanders on a map: along the lower Mississippi, the ...

Just as water moves through a river, rivers themselves move across the landscape. They carve valleys and canyons, create floodplains and deltas, and ...