I grew up in Michigan, which is full of beautiful rivers and lakes. The headwaters of one river, the Pere Marquette River, is near my home town. The picture that I found of the river is near its mouth, where its gradient is lower, which is why its velocity is lower. However, The Pere Marquette River has a relatively lower gradient and discharge throughout, so it doesn't erode as much sediment as some other rivers. The mouth empties into Lake Michigan, which is where the river deposits a lot of its sediment. In the picture that I found, you can see that the Pere Marquette River meanders. At every curve, you can see the point of erosion on the outside where maximum velocity is, called the cut bank, as well as the point of deposit on the inside, called the point bar (Lutgens et al., 2016). Also visible is the flood pain around the river in which the river will overflow into after the runoff after a large rain fall overcomes what can be handled by its natural levees. Michigan is relatively flat, so the valleys occupied by rivers and terraces around the river are not as extreme and visible as they are in the western united states. The Pere Marquette River is perennial river, and its low lying levees and large surrounding flood pains indicate the flooding is likely.
References:
Lutgens, F. K, Tarbuck, E. J., & Tasa, D. (2016). Essentials of geology. (13th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (Pearson).
Wickett, Jeffrey. "Pere Marquette River Meandering Near its Mouth, Michigan, USA". AllPosters.com
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