The meanders of a stream or river that has cut its bed down into the bedrock are known as either incised, intrenched, entrenched, inclosed or ingrown meanders. Some Earth scientists …

Despite its fluvial origins, these days meander is more commonly used to refer to a person's wandering course than a river's. wander, roam, ramble, rove, traipse, meander mean to go …

At the site of the disturbance, such as a fallen log or a collapsing animal burrow, the path of the stream and the velocity of the current change, altering the overall behaviour of the …

If a river, stream, or road meanders, it follows a route that is not straight or direct.

If a river or road meanders, it has a lot of bends, rather than going in a straight line from one place to another. ...roads that meandered round the edges of the fields.

Meanders are the winding curves or bends found in a river's path as it flows across a landscape. These natural features are formed through the processes of erosion and deposition, resulting …

Meanders are produced when water in the stream channel erodes the sediments of an outer bend of a streambank and deposits this and other sediment on subsequent inner bends …

Here at USGS, we study how meanders are formed and can even model them to predict how the river may continue to change in the future, to better understand flooding hazards.

Meanders are usually exhibited at the middle course of rivers. The major contributors to the creation of meanders include erosion, transportation, and deposition processes.

Meanders, named from the Menderes (historically known as the Maeander) River in Turkey, are most often formed in alluvial materials (stream-deposited sediments) and thus freely adjust …