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River Avulsions

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Rivers regularly change their course, as these historic bounds of the Mississippi River show.

But as silt builds up and reduces a river's carrying capacity, they can shift in sudden ways, known as avulsions.

Avulsions are most common where rivers descend from the mountains and where they meet the ocean.

Broken levees and overflowed banks are merely a symptom.

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