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Show 234 River is where you get the shifting channel? A The characteristics of the two streams are very nearly the same. I should have said that channel conditions on the Colorado-- there were more crossing bars observed on the Colorado than on the Green By the Special Master: Q According so this map ( indicating), it is very much straighter than the Green River. A Yes, it is straighter. If both of those rivers would keep on winding, always winding and never straightening out- which, of course, you can not have in nature; a river has got to get somewhere; it has got to turn. The windings of the river account largely for the crossing bar conditions, the crossing bar being formed wherever the current crosses from one side of the river to the other. Q Well, that was what prompted my question. You said that there were more crossing bars in the Colorado River than in the Green River; and yet according to this map ( indicating) the Colorado looksvery much straighter than the Green. A The Colorado probably carries more sediment, which may account for that, the presence of more crossing bars. I am not attempting to account for it. I simply state that I believe there are more crossing bars along the Colorado than along the Green There is one thing that I should like to correct, if I 2197 |
