Oxbowin'

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• Gork@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is why setting borders based on rivers is fundamentally flawed.

  This message brought to you be the latitude/longitude gang.

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, you say that now, but if someone stood on the other side of the river and shot arrows at you, would you really disagree with them?

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  • meep_launcher@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Point Roberts has entered the chat

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Such a stupid border decision. They should have fixed it in the territory swaps a few years ago.

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    • Gingernate@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Northwest angle

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  • fossphi@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s all arbitrary anyway…

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  • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why? Apart from such cases being rare, everyone gets a half island

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because they change and move over time. This river didn’t start out like this.

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The alternative is pretty fucking stupid too. Imagine losing access to your freshwater because the river shifted across an imaginary line. At least when the border is the river, you always have access to the river.

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sooner or later they’re going to become meander scars or oxbow lakes, when the river reconnects with itself.

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  • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Known in Australia as Billabongs

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    • motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      this just shed light on one of my fav song titles by an aussie group, thank you

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      walzing mathilda jumpscare

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  • DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Holy fuck that oxbow lake schematic on wikipedia looks earily like a vessicle coming of a piece of membrane

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    • hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only thing I know about vesicles is that microvesicles are gross… thanks to paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler.

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  • evidences@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My first thought when seeing this was future home of an ox bow lake

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And not far future! Both bends are within a couple of trees in missing each other.

      For those not on the water much, see the beach on the left of the top bow? The opposite side is where the water is deeper and faster. It’ll chew through that bank and meet the other side soon enough.

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• chauncey@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  See those “punch points”? The river will eventually form meander cutoffs, and become a sinuous system rather than a meandering river. This will lead to localized increases in channel slope (due to a reduction in channel length), and therefore increased local velocities, shear stress, and sediment transport.

  Rivers are always seeking equilibrium, so the channel will actually start to move (bank erosion / lateral shifting) to reduce that localized slope and bring things back in order.

  Rivers are so fucking cool.

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  • SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As someone who doesn’t know river lingo, can you translate this?

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    • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      River tangled. River no like tangle. River cut off curvy bits. Connects back to make a less curvy path of least resistance.

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• IGuessThisIsForNSFW@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s the hells an oxbow?! Are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry? Someone should tell me, do I need to buy a shield?

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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oxbow is when a flowing body of water curves out like this over time. Eventually it will redirect to the older, more direct course, leaving an arc of unflowing water called an oxbow lake. This one might have two.

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    • IGuessThisIsForNSFW@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry, I was just quoting Mr.Weebl’s old video about the subject, probably should have linked it in my original comment XD Youtube link

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  • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oxbow

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• Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know much about rivers but based on the floods we had here in Brazil early this year, I don’t think that house will be there by the end of the century.

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• DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yo but who is living in that little blue house, that must be sick

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  • hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What little blue house?

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    • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The one with the blue little window.

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  • DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or green* might have had a night filter on my phone when i posted that haha

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m surprised no one shared that

  youtu.be/8a3r-cG8Wic

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• hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was no Tom Bigbee, it seems.

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  The name “Tombigbee” comes from Choctaw “itumbi ikbi“, which means “box maker” or “coffin maker”. There are many stories and legends about how this name came to be. One story is the river was named after a box maker who lived on some of the Tombigbee’s headwaters. Another story is based on the need for box making in the area to ship pelts during the French-dominated fur trade in the 1700’s.

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  • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Makes sense for it to be a Choctaw name, then. Isn’t the tombigby in, like, Tennessee or something?

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    • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t know. My geographical knowledge of North America isn’t good. :) Google maps points to Alabama and Mississippi, when I ask it about the river’s name.

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• BlackPenguins@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of a Wild Thornberrys episode I saw when I was a kid where they fell off a boat and needed to cross a mountain to catch it on the other side.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it an oxbow or a puppyhammer?

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