Point Bars and Counter Point Bars Along the Mamoré River of Bolivia (VIDEO)

University of Texas at Austin

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A sequence of satellite images showing the changing path of the Mamoré River of Bolivia from 1986 -2018. The sequence on the left is colored to track the formation of sediment deposits in the form of point bars (red) and counter-point bars (blue).

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Zoltán Sylvester/ The University of Texas at Austin.

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