Over time meanders migrate downstream, sometimes in such a short time as to create civil engineering problems for local municipalities attempting to maintain stable roads and bridges. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, an oxbow lake is formed. The result is a snaking pattern as the stream meanders back and forth across its down-valley axis. A stream of any volume may assume a meandering course, alternately eroding sediments from the outside of a bend and depositing them on the inside. A meander is formed when the moving water in a stream erodes the outer banks and widens its valley. Meanders of the Rio Cauto at Guamo Embarcadero, Cuba.Ī meander, in general, is a bend in a sinuous watercourse or river. Motion, move, movement - locomotion, travel - locomotion, motive power, motivity - motion, movement - change of location, travel - traveler, traveller - mover - locomotive, locomotor, locomotory - meander, snake, thread, wander, weave, wind - filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, threadlike, thready - ribbonlike, ribbony - cast, drift, go astray, kick about, kick around, ramble, range, roam, roam about, roam around, roll, rove, stray, stray off, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander, wander about, wander around, wander away (watercourse stream), (discharge drainings drainage) Ĭurve, curved shape - material object, object, physical object - amble, drive, perambulation, promenade, ride, saunter, stroll, walk - continue, go forward, proceed Se déplacer en changeant de direction (fr)
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