Blind channel (BC) is a fluvial feature formed by attachment of a lateral sand bar to an island or riverbank. It consists of a 10- to 20-m wide and hundreds to thousands meters long channel, parallel to the island or bank, ...

Anabranching patterns are characteristic of the largest rivers in the world. We have chosen to study the Paraná River because of its worldwide importance among the great rivers and the large database available from over ...

Large fluvial systems adjust to a combination of controls to form distinctive channels, which represent a dominant factor in the evolution of floodplain geomorphology and sedimentology. Fluvial geomorphology has commonly ...

Bars are semi-submerged fluvial forms associated with the availability of sediments and a temporal dynamic, whose dimensions are controlled by the flow and depth of the channel. Attachment bars are very common in large ...

Composite islands that originate from central bars are one of the most frequent types of islands in the Paraná River and in many large rivers in the world. The aim of this study is to highlight island-forming processes and ...

Anastomosed rivers include a diverse group of fluvial forms with multiple and interconnected alluvial channels. They occur in a wide range of climates and reliefs and constitute the typical pattern of the mega rivers (Qm ...

The Cuiaba River watershed, located in the state of Mato Grosso, drains an area of approximately 36,000 km(2). When it enters the Pantanal area in Mato Grosso, the Cuiaba river starts depositing the sediments transported ...

Phytolith analysis has become a useful tool for paleoenvironmental studies. Phytoliths are produced by plants and are composed of biogenic silica, giving them higher resistance to diagenetic and oxidation processes that ...