Arctic sedimentation, #5 - braided to meandering transition in a river
Location: south of Mt. Leith (see #1 in this series), northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.
This multi-channel braided river (flow towards viewer) changes abruptly to a single-channel meandering pattern as it crosses a deposit of [isostatically raised] glaciomarine clays.
Low-resolution scan of one of my Kodachrome slides from ca. 1988.
(On this page, the "Taken on January 3, 2004" is an error by Flickr. I haven't been to the Arctic since 1992, and at 80 degrees N latitude it would have been dark 24 hours a day in January. The 2004 date is likely the scanning date - a friend scanned many of my old slides for use in a scientific publication.)
C. J.R. Devaney
Arctic sedimentation, #5 - braided to meandering transition in a river
Location: south of Mt. Leith (see #1 in this series), northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.
This multi-channel braided river (flow towards viewer) changes abruptly to a single-channel meandering pattern as it crosses a deposit of [isostatically raised] glaciomarine clays.
Low-resolution scan of one of my Kodachrome slides from ca. 1988.
(On this page, the "Taken on January 3, 2004" is an error by Flickr. I haven't been to the Arctic since 1992, and at 80 degrees N latitude it would have been dark 24 hours a day in January. The 2004 date is likely the scanning date - a friend scanned many of my old slides for use in a scientific publication.)
C. J.R. Devaney