The wide flat area of land beside a river is called a floodplain, for obvious reasons. When it rains, water…
As a river’s meander pattern changes, and the position of the channel shifts, sections of land are suddenly on the…
All this meandering about gradually causes a river to eat away at the valley sides and widen the flat valley…
We’ve seen how the main flow of the river, the strongest current and fastest speed, is on the outside of…
Last week we saw how a river eats away at the outside bank of a meander bend, undercutting until the…