Muzzle carryover
Mouth carryover describes the fact that smaller rivers flow into larger rivers not at right angles, but at acute angles. This is due to changed flow conditions in the mouth area. The flow of the main flow displaced the power stroke of the secondary flow in downstream direction, so that the downstream mouth region of the tributary eroded , while at the upstream shore sedimentation takes place. In particular, but not exclusively, this effect occurs on embankment levels . Examples are the confluence of the Ill into the Rhine or that of the Havel into the Elbe .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ahnert, F. (2009): Introduction to Geomorphology. 4th edition, 393 pp.