7/26/2023 0 Comments Formation of a meander![]() ![]() The distance of one meander along the down-valley axis The meander is two consecutive loops pointing in opposite transverse directions. Two consecutive crossing points of sinuous and down-valley axesĭefine a meander loop. This axis represents the overall direction of the stream.Īt any cross-section the flow is following the sinuous axis, the centerline of the bed. The bankfull width is the distance across the bed at an average cross-section at the full-stream level, typically estimated by the line of lowest vegetation.Īs a waveform the meandering stream follows the down-valley axis, a straight line fitted to the curve such that the sum of all the amplitudes measured from it is zero. Ideal waveforms, such as a sine wave, are one line thick, but in the case of a stream the width must be taken into consideration. It is characterized as an irregular waveform. The technical description of a meandering watercourse is termed meander geometry or meander planform geometry. In the Turkish name, the Büyük Menderes River, Menderes is from "Meander". It flows through a graben in the Menderes Massif, but has a flood plain much wider than the meander zone in its lower reach. ![]() ![]() The Meander River is located south of Izmir, east of the ancient Greek town of Miletus, now, Milet, Turkey. ![]() Strabo said: ". its course is so exceedingly winding that everything winding is called meandering." As such, even in Classical Greece (and in later Greek thought) the name of the river had become a common noun meaning anything convoluted and winding, such as decorative patterns or speech and ideas, as well as the geomorphological feature. The term derives from a river located in present-day Turkey and known to the Greeks as ( Μαίανδρος) Maiandros or Maeander, characterised by a very convoluted path along the lower reach.
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