About The ProductPublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of theWater Resources Monograph Series.River channel pattern comes in three flavors: straight, meandering, and braided. Of these, meandering is perhaps the most common, but at the same time the most mysterious: it is strikingly rich in pattern, yet is encumbered with neither the sterile order of its straight cousin, nor the undecipherable disorder of its braided relative.Consider Figures 1 and 2 herein. The former is of the artificially straightened Naka River, Shikoku, Japan. Thwarted in its quest for a meandering planform, the river has, nevertheless, generated of its own the precursor known as alternate bars. In the latter photograph, a pair of images of the East Nishnabotna River, Iowa, USA, illustrate the elegance of the sinuous river, and the inexorable migration and deformation of bends so characteristic of freely meandering streams.Content:Chapter 1 Boundary Shear Stress and Sediment Transport in River Meanders of Sand and Gravel (pages 1–50): William E. Dietrich and Peter WhitingChapter 2 Sedimentary Controls on Channel Migration and Origin of Point Bars in Sand–Bedded Meandering Rivers (pages 51–68): Hiroshi IkedaChapter 3 Flow in Meandering Channels with Natural Topography (pages 69–102): Jonathan M. Nelson and J. Dungan SmithChapter 4 Sediment Transport and Sorting at Bends (pages 103–125): Syunsuke IkedaChapter 5 Sediment Control by Submerged Vanes. Design Basis (pages 127–151): A. Jacob Odgaard and Anita SpoljaricChapter 6 Analysis of a 2?D Bed Topography Model for Rivers (pages 153–180): Nico Struiksma and Alessandra CrosatoChapter 7 Linear Theory of River Meanders (pages 181–213): Helgi Johannesson and Gary ParkerChapter 8 Studies on Qualitative and Quantitative Prediction of Meander Channel Shift (pages 215–235): Kazuyoshi HasegawaChapter 9 Finite Amplitude Development of Alternate Bars (pages 237–265): Shoji FukuokaChapter 10 Alternate Bars and Meandering (pages 267–320): G. Seminara and M. TubinoChapter 11 Evolution and Stability of Erodible Channel Beds (pages 321–377): Jonathan M. Nelson and J. Dungan SmithChapter 12 Observations on Several Recent Theories of Resonance and Overdeepening in Meandering Channels (pages 379–415): Gary Parker and Helgi JohannessonChapter 13 Bar and Channel Formation in Braided Streams (pages 417–462): Yuichiro FujitaChapter 14 Topographic Response of a Bar in the Green River, Utah to Variation in Discharge (pages 463–485): E. D. Andrews and J. M. Nelson