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- Title
Meander Morphologic Characteristics in an Alluvial Channel.
- Authors
Kang, Ranbir S.
- Abstract
Meander bends are one of the most common morphological features of rivers. Their formation is the result of interactions between bank erosion and several other river characteristics, such as the bed topography resulting from bank erosion, sinuosity, channel flow, and riffle-pool sequencing. Many studies have emphasized proportional relationships between channel widths and different aspects of meander morphology, such as wavelength, curvature of the radius, and belt width. These relationships have been studied for bankfull level width in high-order channels. It is not clear how such relationships vary in low-order headwater streams. This research addresses those gaps in low-order streams of which little is known. Field surveys were conducted in nine meander bends of a low-order alluvial channel in Virginia. The results suggest that in a low-order channel, the ratios of width with wavelength, the radius of curvature, and belt width are mostly similar between the meanders' beginning and tail endpoints. The stream also has similar meander morphologic characteristics and ratios as anticipated from the literature on high-order streams.
- Subjects
CHANNEL flow; FIELD research; CURVATURE; EROSION; TOPOGRAPHY
- Publication
Southeastern Geographer, 2024, Vol 64, Issue 3, p357
- ISSN
0038-366X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sgo.2024.a934972