@inproceedings{44411abf57ee489c9b989a9b768841a8,
title = "Sinuous rivers in peat",
abstract = "Single-thread rivers flowing through peat are as sinuous as classical alluvial meandering rivers, but have notably different planforms. Rivers in peat have straight segments alternating with sharp bends, as opposed to their more gently curving counterparts. Building on work in Indonesia and the Kushiro Peatlands of Japan, we characterize the statistics of bend shape in 5 nearly pristine peatland rivers in Siberia, Brazil and Indonesia, in terms of the probability density function of dimensionless curvature. Results are compared with 5 nearly pristine alluvial meandering rivers. We show that peatland rivers have significantly larger lengths of reaches with very low curvature (nearly straight) than alluvial rivers. We hypothesize that the formation of local “hard points” in peat may be responsible for the angular shape of river bends.",
author = "Guo, {X. Y.} and D. Chen and Z. Li and Garcia, {M. H.} and G. Parker and G. Tanaka",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, London; 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, River Flow 2020 ; Conference date: 07-07-2020 Through 10-07-2020",
year = "2020",
language = "English (US)",
series = "River Flow 2020 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics",
publisher = "CRC Press/Balkema",
pages = "1575--1581",
editor = "Wim Uijttewaal and Franca, {Mario J.} and Daniel Valero and Victor Chavarrias and Arbos, {Claudia Ylla} and Ralph Schielen and Ralph Schielen and Alessandra Crosato",
booktitle = "River Flow 2020 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics",
}