Here are photos I took of the upper Amazon River near Iquitos Peru in September, 2009. You can easily see the meanders and oxbow lakes. Imagine that these are migrating and moving just like in the graphic above, but on a much slower pace.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Meanders, Oxbows, and Time
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In Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain notes the rate at which the river is shortening itself every year by cutting through meanders, and proves with impeccable logic that by the 26th Century the river will be only a mile and three-quarters long.
ReplyDeleteJim Darrow - I love it! Thank you, WR
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