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confluence: a standalone construct

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confluence1 CONSTRUCTRiver confluenceBEST · 1988

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Hydrology

Where two rivers join and their flows mix

In hydrology and fluvial geomorphology, a confluence is the junction where two rivers meet and combine, a site where the merging flows generate strong turbulence, a shear layer between the two streams, deep scour of the bed, and distinctive sediment deposition. Best's 1988 Sediment transport and bed morphology at river channel confluences related the junction angle and the ratio of the two discharges to the scour and bar patterns that result. The referent is a channel-network junction and its flow and sediment dynamics, measured by junction angle, discharge ratio, and scour depth, and it is unrelated to a cell culture reaching confluence or the meeting of cranial sinuses beyond the shared idea of flowing together.[1]

Unit
The scour and mixing produced at a river junction, set by junction angle and discharge ratio
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Characterised by junction angle, the discharge or momentum ratio of the two streams, and surveys of scour depth and bed morphology

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References

  1. Best, J. L. (1988). Sediment transport and bed morphology at river channel confluences. Sedimentology, 35(3), 481–498. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1988.tb00999.x

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