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 ...

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 ...

The ice-covered season plays an important role in the development of river channels, a new study shows. The spatial variability of sediment transport and differences in depositional and erosional ...

The Missouri River drains an area of 530,000 square miles and extends over one-sixth of the conterminous United States. The Missouri River originates at the confluence of the Gallatin, Jefferson, and ...

Fluvial systems, integral to shaping terrestrial landscapes, encompass the dynamic processes by which rivers transport, sort, and deposit sediment. These processes are central to the formation of ...