Migração dos meandros do baixo curso do rio Claro, Goiás: processos e fatores controladores

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Wallas de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4979
• topic: Geomorfologia fluvial; Erosão marginal e associação de fácies sedimentares; Fluvial geomorphology; Bank erosion; Analysis sedimentary facies; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA

Meanders rivers have sinuous channel with singular dynamic of lateral migration by eroding its concave bank and depositing on its convex bank. This dynamic is able to expand and restore fluvial environments when creates a sedimentary environments complex linked to development of floodplain. The nature of preexistent deposits on floodplain, which are remobilized by lateral migration, is important to interpret deposicional dynamics, being central to the identification evolution of meanders. Heterogeneity of the facies is formed by several cycles of sedimentary evolution through channel migration, generating a succession of deposits with different degree cohesion. These depositional environments affect the continuity migration and the evolution of meanders. It was researched the current evolution of meander and riparian vegetation influence and theirs deposit about lateral migration process on downstream Claro river. It was used aerial photographs, satellite images, facies analysis and pin set on the banks to identify the influences of vegetation and material in the migration processes of meanders. The channel showed high mobility verified by the high amount of migration process in 47 years, due to the planforms diffusion and oxbow lakes and by deposits and paleochannel sedimentary facies. The vegetation has not shown attenuating effect against the bank erosion in the two curves analyzed meanders, erosion rates for the segments with vegetation cover were up to 1,3m ahead of the environments of floodplain. It was found that the intensity of channel migration differs between the curves. Migration advances with little resistance from unconsolidated deposits of the current floodplain, whereas in older deposits, pedogenesis and consistent terraces have hindered lateral advance, due to theirs material.