Natalie Tanski and colleagues looked at two reaches of the Colorado River to determine how and why incision varied during the Pleistocene, dating fluvial gravel deposits that form river terraces ...

Gravel-bedded rivers are shaped during floods. Over time, certain floods do the most “geomorphic work” on river beds and banks by maximizing the product of sediment transport magnitude and frequency.

The colorful gravel not only jazzes up yards but also ... a post-2026 operations plan for the river," affirmed the Colorado River Board of California. With the state's vulnerability to droughts ...