According to new research counter-point bars on the outside of river bends are not the oddities they're often made out to be. In fact, they're a perfectly normal part of the river meandering process.

The history of rivers was thought to be braided across barren land, until plants started to grow and changed them into meandering curves. It was what geologists believed, but a new study proved the ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Just as water moves through a river, rivers themselves move across the landscape. They carve valleys and canyons, create floodplains and deltas, and transport sediment from ...

Closer to its sparse beginnings in Central Berkshire than its more momentous mingling with Long Island Sound at Milford Point, the 149 mile Housatonic has attracted me and many others by its quiet ...

In this paper, to explore the origin of the onset of meandering of a straight river, we, first, analyse the linear stability of a straight river. We discover that the natural perturbation modes of a ...

Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, is one of the adventure capitals of the world. The area relies heavily on the river to support its annual tourist flow.

This photo shows part of the Sprague River and salt marsh within the coastal Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area. Fun facts are courtesy of Whitehouse Professor of Geology Dyk Eusden ’80 and ...

It's not uncommon for crescent-shaped swaths of sand to dot the shorelines of meandering rivers. These swaths usually appear along the inner side of a river bend, where the bank wraps around the sandy ...