See those "pinch points"? The river will eventually form meander cutoffs, and become a sinuous system rather than a meandering river. This will lead to localized increases in channel slope (due to a reduction in channel length), and therefore increased local velocities, shear stress, and sediment transport.
Rivers are always seeking equilibrium, so the channel will actually start to move (bank erosion / lateral shifting) to reduce that localized slope and bring things back in order.
Rivers are so fucking cool.
As someone who doesn't know river lingo, can you translate this?
River tangled. River no like tangle. River cut off curvy bits. Connects back to make a less curvy path of least resistance.
Yo but who is living in that little blue house, that must be sick
I don't know much about rivers but based on the floods we had here in Brazil early this year, I don't think that house will be there by the end of the century.
There was no one by the name Tom Bigbee, it seems.
The name “Tombigbee” comes from Choctaw “itumbi ikbi“, which means “box maker” or “coffin maker”. There are many stories and legends about how this name came to be. One story is the river was named after a box maker who lived on some of the Tombigbee’s headwaters. Another story is based on the need for box making in the area to ship pelts during the French-dominated fur trade in the 1700’s.
Umm... Choctaw
are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Mississippi and Alabama.
Makes sense for it to be a Choctaw name, then. Isn't the tombigby in, like, Tennessee or something?
I wouldn't know. My geographical knowledge of North America isn't good. :) Google maps points to Alabama and Mississippi, when I ask it about the river's name.
