Plate 12- 9. Sandbar scrub has stabilized this island in the Río
Napo. Photo by John Kricher.Plate 12- 10. River island in the Río Napo. Photo by John
Kricher.Plate 12- 6. Near the mouth of the Amazon River, one of its
wider areas. Photo by John Kricher.Plate 12- 7. Beaches forming from sediment deposit in the
Río Napo, Ecuador. Vegetation is beginning to colonize the
deposit. Photo by John Kricher.Plate 12- 8. Grasses quickly colonize exposed beach along the
Río Napo. Photo by John Kricher.Plate 12- 11. The point bar shown in this image is already
being colonized by plants that will eventually stabilize it,
contributing to its expansion. Photo by John Kricher.chapter 12 cruising the rivers to the sea 211