Meandering Goosenecks in Utah

This image is depicting a Southeastern region in Utah, where a meandering stream makes very sharp and curved bends around the surrounding valleys known as goosenecks. It is for that reason that this region is a part of the Goosenecks State Park in Utah. These are most often formed by a stream or river that moves from opposite sides across its floodplain, which then erodes the sediments, forming a cut bank. This then deposits other sediment downstream onto a point bar and forms the meandering stream shown above. This image may be important as it helps show what happens to rivers when they are faced with a slow flow and are forced to alternate between high and low elevation points in a tilted flood plain valley such as the one in Utah.