Several lines of a sandbar called 'urokojo sasu' (sandbars that look like scales) were made after a flood at Hii-kawa river in Shimane Prefecture, and they remind us of the scales of a serpent.
島根県の斐伊川には、出水後に「鱗状砂洲」と呼ばれる、蛇の鱗を思わせる砂洲が幾条も構成される。