canadian northern pacific railway Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/canadian-northern-pacific-railway Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:40:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Meanders and the Northern Pacific Railway http://travelsfinders.com/meanders-northern-pacific-railway.html http://travelsfinders.com/meanders-northern-pacific-railway.html#respond Sat, 25 Jun 2016 02:40:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=207145 Trout Creek is an excellent example of meanders, or the windings a stream forms when it flows across nearly level ground. As the water flows through this remnant of the former lake bottom, it gradually cuts through the glacial till and lake sediments. If the river encounters a small obstruction, it goes around it. As a curve develops, the water flows faster on the outside of the curve, cutting still further, while on the inside of the curve, where the water flows slower, a sandbar of deposited sediment builds up. Many years ago people noticed how Trout Creek’s meanders (

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