摘要:Fluvial migration architecture is vital both to restore the historical evolution and anatomy sedimentation structure of river reservoir architecture. Thus it’s essential to figure out the proper methods of study the migration architecture. This paper aims to focus on the methods which have long been used to reveal the law of the fluvial migration. From the past to the modern, as the fast development of science and technology, approaches have been extensively promoted, which in turn enhances the technique to research the laws of the migration. This mini-review has attempted to address the development and advance of methods from the perspective of field outcrops, flume experiments, modern analogs, numerical simulation, satellite images, and seismic slices and models, which intends to promote the understanding of migration architecture of rivers. Moreover, some latest novel approaches are also highlighted in the review and demonstrate the research fronts.