channel migration
Waterway changes course
Channel migration is the gradual movement of a river or stream across its floodplain over time, as water erodes one bank while depositing sediment on the opposite side.
This natural process creates meandering patterns and oxbow lakes.
The term also applies in business contexts to customers shifting between sales or communication platforms: The company tracked channel migration from brick-and-mortar stores to online shopping.
- avulsionForcible tissue separation
- cutbankEroded riverbank cliff
- streamflowRiver water's measured movement
- water's edgeLand-liquid boundary
- erosionGradual wearing away
damming · shifting sands · oxbow lake · dredging · habitat fragmentation · aquatic ecosystems · lateral · alluvial · restoration projects · meandering · sinuous · river bend · remote sensing · downstream · shifting · sediment · overflow · delta
- erosionerosion, wearing, wearing down, beach erosion, river erosion
- river ecosystemsfloodplains, tributaries, oxbow lakes, backwaters, riverbanks
- river processeserosion, abrasion, attrition, corrosion, downcutting
- landformsmountain, cliff, valley, volcano, mountain ridge
- riversMississippi, Amazon, river, rivers, Nile
- river featuresriverbed, riverbank, current, tributary, flow