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| Title: | CHARACTERISTICS OF A MEANDERING RIVER |
| Caption: | (a) Idealized diagram of a meandering stream showing important features. Historical migration of meander bends is commonly indicated by low, curving, vegetation-covered ridges called meander scrolls. The scrolls on the point bar in the left center of the diagram indicate that it migrated from right to left. |
| Keywords: | streams, rivers, water, velocity, velocities, streamflow, erosion, channels, meanders, meandering, cut banks, point bars, deposition, cutoffs, oxbow lakes, floods, floodplains |