Movie:The Development of An Experimental Meandering River
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Key Attributes
Domain: | terrestrial, hydrology |
Model name: | |
Name: | Wout, van Dijk |
Where: | Laboratory |
When: | hours |
Short Description
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.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011JF002314/abstract
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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