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 ...

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Feb. 7 (UPI) --Engineers and builders need to understand how rivers shift and meander over time, but new research suggests the conventional thinking on the behavior of bending rivers is flawed.

Inspection of the planform of meandering rivers indicates that they are generally not symmetric but display at least two forms of asymmetry indicative of flow direction. One is downchannel delay in ...