A last look at the many-windowed mill walls towering over the river bend, and a turn of the sheer-sided gorge shut the spectacle away.

This was where a sluggish creek had turned into that towering flood that tore through villages and forest and even ripped open a huge gorge in a river bend.

They did so on the outside of the last river bend, a feat last accomplished in 1952.

In the vicinity of a river bend, deposition occurs on the convex bank (the bank with the smaller radius).

Imagine a boulder stuck in a river bending the water around it.