#meanders — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #meanders, aggregated by home.social.
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Geologists Got It Wrong - Rivers Didn’t Need Plants To Meander
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https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250831010533.htm <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adv4939 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #hydrographic #river #meanders #meandering #sediment #vegetation #geomorphology #geomorphometry #geoscience #geology #riverdynamics #sinuosity #geometry #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #spatialanalyis #spatiotemporal #bank #pointbar #flow #stratigraphy #geologicrecord #braiding #biogeochemical #stabilised #banks #erosion #roots -
Tasman River - New Zealand
🌏 https://maps.app.goo.gl/4cPPBsmANLwxeYMq8
4K link : https://i.imgur.com/oGHtFBc.jpeg
#GoogleEarth #SatelliteView #AerialPhotography #abstract #EarthArt #fractal #river #meanders #tasman #NewZealand #blue #tendrils #pattern #texture #atlas #EarthAsArt #EarthFromSpace #EarthFromAbove #landscape #waterscape #dji #worldview #Mapstodon #MastoArt
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The Impact Of Vegetation On Meandering Rivers
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00249-6 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #hydrology #river #meanders #anthropocene #vegetation #processmodeling #model #modeling #plants #trees #carboncycle #Palaeozoic #evolution #fluvial #fluvialgeomorphology #geomorphology #channel #channelisation #rivergeomorphology #impact #humanimpact #climatechange #climate #carbondioxide #anthropogenic #changes #biodiversity #aridification #dynamics #geology #soilscience #riverbanks #erosion #sedimentation #floodplain #urbanisation #deforestation #pollution #ancient #landscape #watershed #biogeochemistry #morphometry #geomorphometry -
Simple but effective animation of a river as it meanders and erodes...
[source unknown]
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https://www.usgs.gov/educational-resources/find-feature-meander
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Wonder how river terracing would look if included? <rhetorical>
#GIS #spatial #mapping #gischat #river #erosion #meanders #riverine #animation #hydrology #water #visualisation #fluvial #sedimentation #model #modeling #meandering #geomorphology #landforms #geology -
Ancient Courses - Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps Of The Mississippi River (1944)
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https://kottke.org/19/06/the-marvelous-mississippi-river-meander-maps <-- shared blog post
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[Daniel Coe has done and continues to make amazing hydrographic cartography in this regard, see image attached]
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“[T]housands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 years ago, and even back to before humans, when mammoths, camels, dire wolves, and giant beavers roamed the land and gazed upon the river…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #hydrology #mississippi #cartography #hydrology #water #river #meanders #representation #map #maps #historicmaps #banks #art #artwork #gischat #HaroldFisk
#USACE #fluvial
@kottke