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The meander belt is defined by an average meander width measured from outer bank to outer bank instead of from centerline to centerline. If there is a flood plain, it extends beyond the meander belt. The meander is then said to be free—it can be found anywhere in the flood plain. If there is no flood plain, the meanders are fixed.
[3] [6] A terrace on the slip-off slope of a meander spur, known as slip-off slope terrace, can be formed by a brief halt during the irregular incision by an actively meandering river. [7] Aerial photograph of a meander on the Economy River, Nova Scotia. The gravel area on the inside of the meander near the centre-right of the image is a slip ...
Point bar at a river meander: the Cirque de la Madeleine in the Gorges de l'Ardèche, France. Any fluid, including water in a stream, can only flow around a bend in vortex flow. [1] In vortex flow the speed of the fluid is fastest where the radius of the flow is smallest, and slowest where the radius is greatest.
Meander scars, oxbow lakes and abandoned meanders in the broad flood plain of the Rio Negro, Argentina. 2010 astronaut photo from ISS. A meander scar, occasionally meander scarp, [1] is a geological feature formed by the remnants of a meandering water channel. They are characterized by "a crescentic cut in a bluff or valley wall, produced by ...
Meander cutoffs directly reduce and tend to indirectly reduce a river’s sinuosity, thus straightening out a river’s channel. [5] Understanding the processes that form meander cutoffs can allow one to predict how a river will evolve in the future which is important for agricultural businesses and controlling future floods. [5]
Meander, Maeander, Mæander or Maiandros (Ancient Greek: Μαίανδρος) was a river god in Greek mythology, patron deity of the Meander river (modern Büyük Menderes River) in Caria, southern Asia Minor (modern Turkey). He was one of the sons of the Titans Oceanus and his sister/wife (incest) Tethys. [1]
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River channel migration is the geomorphological process that involves the lateral migration of an alluvial river channel across its floodplain.This process is mainly driven by the combination of bank erosion of and point bar deposition over time.