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12. Hard to imagine because of lack of scale

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2013, 12:13 PM

May 2013

But that being said, I have witnessed somewhat the same ground formation on small streams by me.
One side is a little built up due to activity by "underground muckers", the other side is eroded by flow from the higher ground, leaving rivulets almost like the ones seen here.

Muckers = things like turtles etc. they have a tendency to build up sediment on one side of a stream to enhance the possibility of catching food in good flowing water, leaving the formations seen.
The "channels" on the other side remind me of banks that lost the foliage and the erosion that takes place.

Please I am not a scientist, just a avid hiker and observer of my surroundings.

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