![]() ![]() Please see the USGS social media sharing policy at. If you tag us with you are giving us permission to use your image. Here at USGS, we study how meanders are formed and can even model them to predict how the river may continue to change in the future, to better understand flooding hazards.Ĭan you find a meander in your area? If you don't see a river, see if you can spot a sidewalk or path that meanders, or watch how a drop of rainwater flows down a slightly sloped surface - does it make a straight or curvy path? Take a photo of a meander and tag us #findafeature or send it to us at be watching Instagram and Twitter for some great #findafeature examples and may share them here with the first name or initials of the contributor, and a general location. Due to erosion on the outside of a bend and deposition on the inside, the shape of a meander changes over time. This is why you often see sand bars and beaches on the inside of the curve. Why is this? Water is pushed to the outside of a bend, and erodes the curve further, while water on the inside is slower and deposits sediment. Once a meander starts, it often becomes more and more exaggerated. As a river makes its way through an area that is relatively flat, it often develops bends as it erodes its way through the path of least resistance. A meander is when water flows in a curvy, bendy path, like a snake. (16) Contributing to this impression was not only the shape-on-top-of-shape appearance but that work's random meander. (15) A couple of tracks meander aimlessly so that by the end of the album I'm left with the feeling that the band didn't quite know which direction to take. (13) a leisurely meander around the twisting coastline road (14) Another meander takes us into the house of a female healer. (12) He allows plot points and characters to meander around meaninglessly, while avoiding obvious elements like purpose and plausibility. (11) I will be writing about costs of living, food and booze on a slow meander in the sun. (10) Other tracks distinctly lack progression a drum loop plods along with murky synth bass lines only to cut off suddenly, or meander without significant development or resolution. (9) Aas soon as I let down my guard a thought of Gavin would meander into my brain and make as much noise as it could. (8) The area grew and prospered during the Industrial Revolution, but it's now an oasis of green calm, where canals and rivers meander through hills dotted with sheep and dry-stone walls. (7) Omid took some time to meander and wander through the Game Developer Conference in San Jose last week. (6) In places the road will meander and curve to draw attention to the landscape. (5) Shreve, in a move of astonishing hubris, decided in 1831 to dredge a five-mile shortcut across a long meander on the Mississippi, saving 18 river-miles. (4) Quite apart form this, a slow meander down the Siq establishes the mystery of this ├ö├ç├┐lost├ö├ç├û city and builds up a sense of anticipation around every corner. (3) Awkwardly sited on the river meander, the bridge has an uncomfortable relationship with the freeway. ![]() ![]() ![]() (1) a leisurely meander round the twisting coastline road (2) He used that excuse to meander aimlessly around the cotton fields sometimes, he would walk clear across the plantation, and sit between the rows for hours, just thinking. ![]()
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