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Describe The Dominant Features That Characterise Different River channel Patterns. Is Channel Pattern Easily Classified or a Continuum?
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Describe The Dominant Features That Characterise Different River channel Patterns. Is Channel Pattern Easily Classified or a Continuum? A basic way of defining channel pattern is to say that it is, "a term to describe how a river looks from above." (Leopold 'A view of a river' pp56.) However for this essay I feel that it is more appropriate to use the view of Knighton and Nanson who describe the term as "one of the means whereby a natural river can adjust to its channel form to imposed flow and sediment." Leopold and Wolman (1957) classified channel pattern into three types; straight, meandering and braided. As time has progressed several other patterns have been defined. These include 'wandering channels' (Carson, 1984) and 'Anastomosing channels' (Smith and Putnam,1980.) This essay will describe the characteristics of each of the 5 major types of channel pattern and will further attempt to answer...
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