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Geologic map showing old courses of the Lower Mississippi River
Thalweg. The thalweg is the fastest and strongest part of a river. It erodes the outerside of the river bank called the cut bank. The slowest and weakest part of the river is on the other side where the slow current causes deposition of sediment in a point bar.
© Edwin Lyon 2018
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