Question

Define meander and describe the basic characteristics of entrenched and ingrown meander

Answer 1

A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse.

 entrenched meanders are symmetrical and form when the river downcuts particularly quickly. Due to the speed which the river downcuts, there is little opportunity for lateral erosion to occur giving them their symmetrical shape.

Answer 2

The meander are a S shaped flow of rivers and they work in vertical and horizontal motion.

Explanation:

• A meander is a series of regular curves and consists if bends loops and turns and is made by a stream or a river flowing from side to side across the floodplains and shifts its course within the valley.  

• The meander streams erode the sediments and the meandering stream shifts its channels is called as meander belt and is 15 to 18 times wider than the average width.

• The entrenched meanders consist of a narrow trench or a valley that is cut into a plain or a relatively levelled upland. These meanders develop a snake like a pattern and they have the ability to cut the hard rocks and thus are also called incised meanders.

• The ingrow meanders are asymmetric and forms when the rivers cut less rapidly and eroded for the sides an example of the grand canyon.

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