## Irrawaddy River, North Myanmar

This image of North Myanmar shows the change in the channel characteristics of the Irrawaddy River about 200 km north of Mandalay. The Irrawaddy in the north of the image flows through a wide floodplain. The channel is wide with a number of depositional features such as point and midchannel bars at various levels. Former river courses, abandoned meanders, waterbodies and deposition of alluvium occur on this wide floodplain over which the river moves freely. In the middle of the image the Irrawaddy enters the Sagaing Fault, a major north-south trending geological feature.

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