Channel avulsion and river metamorphosis
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Sandra O. Brizga; Brian L. Finlayson
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Article
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1990
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Channel avulsion occurred on the Thomson River in Victoria, Australia, in 1952 along a 12 km length of the valley. A comparison of the old and new channels reveals considerable differences in channel characteristics. The old channel was perched above the floodplain on an alluvial ridge such that whe