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Originally Posted by janwhin
Before the river changed its course it was eroding itself southwards. I wonder if the "islands" appeared at various times as the remnants of higher ground were left as the river drowned the lower lying land?
Fascinating thread, I hope Hollydog returns unscathed and before dark  |
Yes that's it. On a bend in the river the outside of the loop is being eroded away, as that is where the water is fastest, and sediment is deposited on the inside of the bend where the slower water is, and it moves along like that.
It was probably likely that the river would have broken through at the thinnest point at Helsay creating an Ox-bow lake at Amble but the storm that night changed everything.