Chapter 14
Chapter 14: Streams and Associated Flooding: The Geology of Running Water
Animation
People building communities along a riverbank mistakenly assume that the shape of a meandering stream will remain fixed for a long time. In fact, in a natural meandering river system, the river channel migrates back and forth across the floodplain. View 1 illustrates the processes of erosion and deposition, and View 2 shows the evolution, in map view, of a meandering stream. For more information, see 14.6 Streams and Their Deposits in the Landscape starting on p.387 and Figure 14.16 on p. 390 in your textbook.