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Tag: river

Keeping it in the Channel

20th February 2019 Sandra

The wide flat area of land beside a river is called a floodplain, for obvious reasons. When it rains, water…

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Posted in: Britain - General, Rivers Filed under: bankful, flooding, floodplain, levee, river, river engineering

River Engineering

13th February 2019 Sandra

As a river’s meander pattern changes, and the position of the channel shifts, sections of land are suddenly on the…

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Posted in: Britain - General, Rivers Filed under: cut-off meander, meander, river, river engineering

Cut-off Meanders

6th February 2019 Sandra

All this meandering about gradually causes a river to eat away at the valley sides and widen the flat valley…

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Posted in: Britain - General, Rivers Filed under: cut-off meander, meander, ox-bow lake, river

Migrating Meanders

30th January 2019 Sandra

We’ve seen how the main flow of the river, the strongest current and fastest speed, is on the outside of…

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Posted in: Britain - General, Rivers Filed under: deposition, erosion, meander, meander migration, point bar, river, river cliff, slip-off slope

Meanders – The Inside Story

23rd January 2019 Sandra

Last week we saw how a river eats away at the outside bank of a meander bend, undercutting until the…

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Posted in: Britain - General, Rivers Filed under: deposition, meander, meander migration, point bar, river, river cliff

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