Meanders more or less narrowly inclosed by canyon walls characterize certain parts of many streams of the Colorado Plateau. On larger streams, the meanders appear to have been inherited from a ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

IN connexion with the communication by J. H. Horlock in Nature of November 26, p. 1034, I am writing to urge that the term ‘meander’ should be strictly limited to natural meanders, not to bends due to ...

Forest regeneration was examined on abandoned channels along the Hatchie River in western Tennessee. Tree age and size data were used to reconstruct the development of the young forest stands and to ...

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 ...

Restoring rivers to their natural state is now hit-and-miss, primarily because scientists don't really know what makes a river meander. A scale model using alfalfa sprouts to represent vegetation now ...