Erosion in Meanders

Abstract

I AM grateful to Sir Claude Inglis for pointing out that the term ‘meander’ should be restricted to bends similar to natural meanders. I agree that the initial shapes of the bends used in the experiments described in my communication were not true meanders; but the point of the experiment was to demonstrate that the nature of the erosion in such bends would depend largely on the initial curvature at entry to the bend. Such artificial bends probably develop into natural meanders. Subsequent experiments on natural meanders of similar amplitude and wave-length show that erosion occurs on the banks on the outside of tho bends, and not on one bank, as in the original experiments with artificial bends.