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Cut banks along the Cut Bank Creek. A cut bank, also known as a river cliff or river-cut cliff, is the outside bank of a curve in a water channel , which is continually undergoing erosion. [1] Cut banks are found in abundance along mature or meandering streams, they are located opposite the slip-off slope on the inside of the stream meander ...
The river and cliff there are prototypical giving rise to the eponymous formally named "cut bank" geographic terrain feature archetype. In southeastern Glacier County, approximately 12 mi (19 km) southeast of Cut Bank, it joins the Two Medicine River to form the Marias River. There is a brewery in Cut Bank whose name is based on this creek. [4]
The concave bank is often a cut bank and an area of erosion. The eroded material is swept and rolled across the floor of the stream by the secondary flow and may be deposited on the point bar only a small distance downstream from its original location in the concave bank. The point bar typically has a gently sloping floor with shallow water.
Slip-off slope (right) and cut bank. The depositional slip-off slope is on the left and a small river cliff on the right. River Ashes Hollow, UK. Schematic cross section of a meandering river channel showing slip-off slope formation. A slip-off slope is a depositional landform that occurs on the inside convex bank of a meandering river.
Cutbank River is a river in western Alberta, Canada. It is a major tributary of the Smoky River . It originates in the boreal forest of the Rocky Mountains foothills, on the south-eastern flanks of Nose Mountain, and flows east into the Smoky River.
Cut Bank is located in eastern Glacier County. The Blackfeet Indian Reservation is located just west of Cut Bank, on the western side of Cut Bank Creek. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.99 square miles (2.56 km 2), all land. [6] The city is located 30 miles (48 km) south of the Canada–United States ...
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Meandering rivers flow higher and hence with more total flow, pressure and erosion on the outside of their bends due to forming a vortex as in a stirred coffee cup and consequently the river erodes more the outer bank. On the inside bend of a river, the level is lower, secondary flow moves sand and gravel across the river bed creating shallows ...