Figure 1
From: Remotely-sensed planform morphologies reveal fluvial and tidal nature of meandering channels
Tidal and Fluvial meanders. (a) Confluence of R. Eirú and R. Tarauacá with R. Jurúa, Amazonas (BR). All rivers freely meander for hundreds of kilometers across their alluvial floodplains. A a train of about 50 meanders along R. Eirú is shown in the inset. (Map data: Google, Landsat; 6° 41′S, 69° 44′W). (b) Meanders along the Chinchaga River in Alberta (CAN) (Map data: Google, Landsat; 58° 49′N, 118° 21′W). (c) Meandering tidal channel networks in Barnstable Bay (MA) displaying densely spaced lateral tributaries, width funneling and peculiar tidal meander morphologies (Map data: Google, TerraMetrics; 41° 43′N, 70° 20′W). (d) Tidal meanders along the Malacca Strait coast (Perak, MAL) (Map data: Google, Maxar technologies, CNES/Airbus, TerraMetrics; 4° 53′N, 100° 37′W).
