Access

News and Views

Nature Physics 4, 265–266 (1 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/nphys915

Pattern formation: Watch your step

|[Oslash]|yvind Hammer

In most rivers and streams, rapid flow is associated with erosion, calmer flow with deposition. This is the reason why the river channel stays fairly localized, although it can also move laterally.