| 单词 | meander scroll |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeander scroll meander scroll n. Physical Geography one of a series of long, parallel, crescent-shaped ridges and troughs formed along the inner bank of a river meander as it migrates down-valley; cf. point bar n. (b) at point n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1939 A. K. Lobeck Geomorphol. vii. 223 The following observable characteristics of mature streams may be taken to indicate that a graded profile has been established..: (a) Flood plain, with natural levees; (b) meanders, with abandoned meander scrolls, cutoffs and oxbow lakes; [etc.]. 1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. vii. 168 [A point bar] is roughly equivalent to what has been called a meander bar, meander scroll.., or scroll meander. 1984 J. J. Lowe & M. J. C. Walker Reconstructing Quaternary Environments ii. 72 Fossils are preserved, for example, in abandoned meander scrolls, in oxbow lakes or in backswamp deposits. < as lemmas |
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