Certain streams and rivers, called meandering streams, tend to curve back and forth (or meander) as they flow across the landscape. For example, in Louisiana, the Mississippi River cities of Baton ...
In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the ...
KOCHI: The biodiversity heritage tag for the Kanichamthura Oxbow Lake, a unique lake formed in the shape of ‘U’ shape at Vynthala, near Mala, has proved elusive after the National Biodiversity ...
A new study of the Amazon River basin shows lowland rivers that carry large volumes of sediment meander more across floodplains and create more oxbow lakes than rivers that carry less sediment. A new ...
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 form ...