Movie:The Development of An Experimental Meandering River

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Domain:	terrestrial, hydrology
Model name:
Name:	Wout, van Dijk
Where:	Laboratory
When:	hours

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Grade level: Under graduate (13-16), Graduate / Professional

Statement: A meandering river created by a tank experiment

Abstract: This video shows the elevation of the bed, when a meandering rivers migrates in the flume. This experiment is described in Van Dijk et al., 2012.

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Theory

Meandering rivers are ubiquitous in nature, but have been difficult to simulate in flumes.

The snake-like pattern found in meandering rivers occurs as meanders migrate as the outer bank of a river erodes sediment, and the inner curve of a river receives deposits of sediment.

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http://www.woutvandijk.com/

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