Summary. The Geometry of Small Meandering Streams .

River adjustment to altered hydrologic regimen - Murrumbidgee River and paleochannels, Australia

“…1 A tendency toward development of a sinuous channel was detected in these experiments (Freidkin, 1945;Ackers, 1964); however, the model channel at the conclusion of the experiments was still almost straight. The meandering channel developed by Freidkin was not a channel which carried the bankfull flow of water; rather, it was a thalweg, or low-water channel, visible when the discharge was reduced to a very small fraction of that used to develop the stable bankfull channel.…”

Channel Restoration Design for Meandering Rivers

“…According to Ackers and Charlton (1970a) According to Schumm (1968), M reflects the type of sediment load such that larger wavelengths are associated with friable, easily eroded banks and high proportions of bed load transport in streams.…”

Meanders caused by hyperconcentrated water flow: An example from the loess plateau, China

“…It has been generally accepted that meanders are related to comparatively low sediment concentrations, especially that of bedload, and when sediment concentration increases, the meandering channel will become braided (Kinghton, 1984). The work of Ackers and Charlton (1970) showed that there appears to be a threshold rate of sediment discharge below which channels meander. The results obtained in this study indicate that this holds true only for rivers at normal sediment concentrations.…”