The river Melinau drains a part of Borneo which has a complete cover of equatorial rain forest. The contemporary river landforms and sediments comprise an integrated assemblage of channel and ...

At 4,130 miles (6,650 km) long, the Nile in Africa is the longest river in the world. Some people consider the Amazon in South America to be longer. This is because the many hundreds of channels that ...

Crescent dunes and meandering rivers can 'forget' their initial shapes as they are carved and reshaped by wind and water while other landforms keep a memory of their past shape, suggests a new ...

The Paleocene Tongue River Member of the Fort Union Formation in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, was deposited in meandering and anastomosed fluvial environments. In swamps associated with the ...

A team led by Sitong Liu from Peking University conducted a study along a 4,300-kilometer gradient of the Yangtze River, covering 12 mountain-foothill sites and 15 plain sites. Through metagenomic ...

Mention the word “delta,” and most people will think of an airline or a cinematic fraternity house before they think of the depositional landform found at the mouth of rivers. But, really, you should ...

With methods used to analyze road systems and rivers researchers from the University of Copenhagen have studied the formation of the pancreas' network of ducts transporting digestive enzymes in mice.