Chaos shapes how meandering rivers change over time, research shows

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Apr 1, 2026, 6:40 pm128 ptsTrending
Rivers are rarely the calm, orderly streams we imagine on maps. Over time, their winding paths—called meanders—shift, bend, and occasionally snap off in sudden "cutoff" events that shorten loops and reshape the landscape. While scientists have long suspected that such cutoffs inject a dose of…

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