ANSWER: It would seem logical and natural for a river to run straight. Rivers that flow over gentle sloping ground do begin to curve back and forth. Such rivers are predictably called meandering ...

Sue Vorenberg There is no scientific field called "river psychology," but that hasn't stopped Peter Vorobieff and his colleagues from trying to figure out why rivers behave the way they do. The ...

Feb. 7 (UPI) --Engineers and builders need to understand how rivers shift and meander over time, but new research suggests the conventional thinking on the behavior of bending rivers is flawed.

Inspection of the planform of meandering rivers indicates that they are generally not symmetric but display at least two forms of asymmetry indicative of flow direction. One is downchannel delay in ...

If you’ve ever pondered the geological and geographical life of a stream of flowing water, or any body of water for that matter, then we’ve got the book for you. Written by Margaret Wooster – ...

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 ...

Meander: East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal (May 16, hardcover, $25, ISBN 978-1596916524). An exploration of the now forgotten, once majestic Meander river, where the ...

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