This video explores how meanders grow through erosion on the outer bend and deposition on the inner bend. It also explains how oxbow lakes form when a meander is cut off during flooding, leaving ...

KOCHI: The biodiversity heritage tag for the Kanichamthura Oxbow Lake, a unique lake formed in the shape of ‘U’ shape at Vynthala, near Mala, has proved elusive after the National Biodiversity ...

A new study of the Amazon River basin shows lowland rivers that carry large volumes of sediment meander more across floodplains and create more oxbow lakes than rivers that carry less sediment. A new ...

Sinuous, meandering streams produce diverse and wildlife-rich habitats and are the aim of many river restoration efforts, but until now, the bank, water flow and sediment conditions required to form ...