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Our transcription: Bars are especially common in braided streams which form where sediment choked rivers flow across broad easily eroded slopes. Bars also commonly occur in meandering rivers. A meandering river typically wanders across wide valleys and lowlands in a series of S-shaped curves. Erosion and deposition occur continuously side by side along the banks of meandering rivers. Low velocity on the inside of a meander curve results in the deposition of "point bars." On the outside of a curve where velocity is high and erosion normally takes place, "cut banks" form. Because of this erosion and deposition, both the sizes and positions of meanders continuously change.
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