Rivers meander. Lakes grow and shrink. Engineers build dams and farmers flood fields. In the 30-year animation* above, Bangladesh's Brahmaputra River sweeps unpredictably across the landscape.

McCutchan made the river animation in Adobe Flash ... McCutchan agrees: Illustrations that show three points in the formation of a stream meander or ox bow lake don't give students a sense of how ...

All rivers naturally change their path over time, but this one forms meanders (the technical name for these curves) at an especially fast rate, due to the speed of the water, the amount of ...

If a river has a chance, it will meander, winding over the land in a series of loops. Geologists even call the loops meanders. You can see meanders on a map--along the lower Mississippi ...