Meander cutoff
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A meander cutoff is a natural form of a cutting or cut in a river which occurs when a pronounced meander in a river is breached by a flow that connects the two closest parts of the hook to form a new
View along the former Mississippi River riverbed at the Tennessee/Arkansas state line near Reverie, Tennessee (2007)
Point bar
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A point bar is a depositional feature made of alluvium that accumulates on the inside bend of streams and rivers below the slip-off slope. Point bars are found in abundance in mature or meandering str
Meander cutoff
…more the outer bank. On the inside bend of a river, the level is lower, secondary flow moves sand and gravel across the river bed creating shallows and point bars, and friction of air and perturbances of the bed act against a higher proportion of the column of water, being shorter, slowing the water to varying…
Cut bank erosion and point bar deposition as seen on the Powder River in Montana.
Point bar at a river meander: the Cirque de la Madeleine in the Gorges de l'Ardèche, France.