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Cutoff Chute

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Definition

A flood-incised chute or floodplain channel that evolves into the dominant conveyor of river discharge (Constantine et al. 2010).

Category

A type of meander cutoff.

Synonyms

Chute cutoff

Description

A new channel section along a swale between point bars (Stolum 1996).

Formation

A cutoff chute develops when the river cuts through its own point bar (Fig. 1), producing a new channel across the neck of a meander (e.g., Güneralp and Marston 2012). It leaves two channels in the meander bend with an island instead of a point bar near the apex of the river bend (Julien 2002).

Cutoff Chute, Fig. 1
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Meander features (after Lagasse et al. 2004). (a) Sand and gravel/mid-channel point bar (Julien 2002, p. 178), (b) chute, and (c) point bar

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  1. Institute of Geography, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

    Dénes Lóczy

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  1. NASA Ames Research Center/NPP, Moffett Field, CA, USA

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  2. Konkoly Thege Miklos Astronomical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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Lóczy, D. (2015). Cutoff Chute. In: Hargitai, H., Kereszturi, Á. (eds) Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3134-3_94

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