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Restoring rivers to their natural state is now hit-and-miss, primarily because scientists don't really know what makes a river meander. A scale model using alfalfa sprouts to represent vegetation ...

If a river has a chance, it will meander, winding over the land in a series of loops. Geologists even call the loops, meanders. You can see meanders on a map: along the lower Mississippi, the ...

IN connexion with the communication by J. H. Horlock in Nature of November 26, p. 1034, I am writing to urge that the term ‘meander’ should be strictly limited to natural meanders, not to ...

ANSWER: It would seem logical and natural for a river to run straight. Rivers that flow over gentle sloping ground do begin to curve back and forth. Such rivers are predictably called meandering ...

Meanders in river beds help the climate. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 10 / 211029113959.htm. GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre.