Wabash River Cutoff Researchers (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Wabash River Cutoff Researchers

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Illinois professors Bruce Rhoads (left) and Jim Best (right) and graduate student Jessica Zinger (center) documented development of two cutoff channels in a bend in the Wabash River, pictured in the background. The cutoffs released huge amounts of sediment into the river.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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