The most Absurd Meanders on Google Earth

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  • Опубліковано 9 гру 2024

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  • @lapatron555
    @lapatron555 26 днів тому +259

    So I am a geologist and I first of all want to say, great locations very cool places! But I also want to clarify one thing, meanders in canyons do not actually create oxbows! Meanders only form on floodplains, not in canyons. So why do canyons meander? Well the simple answer is the river was in that shape before the land around it was lifted up! This is called an entrenched meander and Nick Zentner has a great video on it! Keep it up!

    • @the_pov_channel
      @the_pov_channel  25 днів тому +44

      Yep, I didn't articulate this properly in the video. Thanks for the knowledge!

    • @johnmcnulty4425
      @johnmcnulty4425 24 дні тому +5

      The Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania is a nice example of an entrenched meander.

    • @riroo8275
      @riroo8275 21 день тому +1

      @@johnmcnulty4425 Hell, damn near all of the rivers in the Allegheny Plateau are excellent examples of entrenched meanders. It is precisely because the whole region is a massive, interconnected system of entrenched meanders that makes the Allegheny Plateau so difficult to traverse, even to this day.

    • @ConradNewfield
      @ConradNewfield 20 днів тому

      Which video’s of Nick Zentner is about entrenched meanders?

    • @unoverse0168
      @unoverse0168 17 днів тому

      Yapanese

  • @juliangeorge2026
    @juliangeorge2026 Місяць тому +128

    smooth ass google earth animations. can imagine they were a lot harder than they look

  • @I_am_Junebug
    @I_am_Junebug Місяць тому +79

    Abandoned Meander - that's a perfect name for our band!
    I really enjoyed this one, Nolan. I love all your content. Keep 'em coming & love to Tooey.

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy 24 дні тому +2

      So many country band names inspired by, well, the country side xD

  • @frostbyte101
    @frostbyte101 Місяць тому +80

    One of the few channels I have notifications on for. Love it!

    • @the_pov_channel
      @the_pov_channel  Місяць тому +5

      Thank you 🙏

    • @Mr_Friendly_B
      @Mr_Friendly_B Місяць тому

      @@the_pov_channel In the 1th sentence "בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ" the word אֱלֹהִים is a plural (like us) and the word בָּרָא doesn't mean "created" but something like "reworked something that was already there". The 6th and 7th sentences talk about humans building a giant dam.

  • @flowingtao
    @flowingtao Місяць тому +62

    I was just wondering when you would post again, and here you are. Wonderful video!! Thank you, Nolan :)

    • @the_pov_channel
      @the_pov_channel  Місяць тому +9

      Don't forget to check out my second to last video. I think it was pretty good, but out was never suggested to most of my subscribers. Lots more coming soon cheers

  • @cprcpr-es1sr
    @cprcpr-es1sr Місяць тому +12

    Thanks for showing the wildest parts of NA in the best form and style. Greetings from Poland.

  • @S-Jq8ob
    @S-Jq8ob Місяць тому +7

    Nolan, I always enjoy your work...honesty and lack of click bait, YT overused tactics just to draw people in! We like the REALITY, information, gorgeous vistas, and interesting places you keep managing to find and entertain us with! I hope you never change!😊👍👍👍

    • @the_pov_channel
      @the_pov_channel  Місяць тому +1

      Hope to always keep it that way

    • @S-Jq8ob
      @S-Jq8ob Місяць тому

      @@the_pov_channel 😊👍👍👍

  • @martincarles1054
    @martincarles1054 27 днів тому +3

    Great work! Other places to check out for great meanders are Siberia, the Congo river, Alaska and Mississippi !

  • @TheAnarchitek
    @TheAnarchitek Місяць тому +11

    A lotta lotta water passed over the Four Corners region, carved by more than 50 billion acre-feet of water coming out of northern Utah, and southwestern Wyoming, across the northwestern corner of Colorado, probably about 4,000 years ago. The canyons testify to the brevity of their existence, barely 1,000 feet, outside the Grand Canyon, created by the draining of an "inland sea that had lain across the region, up to 2,500 feet deep. The area is a basin, probably caused by an ancient ice cap untold millennia ago, before the Colorado Plateau and the Rockies were pushed up.

  • @joemcintyre2090
    @joemcintyre2090 Місяць тому +9

    👍I dig all your videos!

  • @CoolCurzon
    @CoolCurzon Місяць тому +2

    Hi Nolan: This is an amazing video, tremendous amount of research and video editing. Very interesting and educational. Total "Wow !!" effect. Stay safe.

  • @xxPROMETHEUSxx1.
    @xxPROMETHEUSxx1. Місяць тому +6

    Great video. That echo was epic!

  • @newworldsoldier81
    @newworldsoldier81 Місяць тому +29

    Greetings from Spain, not far from the Ebro River.

    • @the_pov_channel
      @the_pov_channel  Місяць тому +2

      Neat

    • @gui18bif
      @gui18bif Місяць тому +2

      ​@@the_pov_channel having just passed by Miranda del Ebro and Viktoria-Gasteiz , thats a mystical place ...

    • @TripleZetta
      @TripleZetta Місяць тому

      Una polla

    • @CHEMAURO.
      @CHEMAURO. 27 днів тому

      de qué parte eres? jaja

    • @newworldsoldier81
      @newworldsoldier81 27 днів тому

      @@CHEMAURO. De Valencia,pero para esta gente eso es un paseo 😅

  • @Nat-rs6up
    @Nat-rs6up Місяць тому +1

    Wow!!!!! Beautiful and interesting. Great vid! Loved the echo too!!!!!

  • @paulbriggs3072
    @paulbriggs3072 Місяць тому +9

    Where the San Rafael river cuts through the spine or ridge at the San Rafael swell (3:05 on the video), this is actually known as a water gap- a place where water somehow seems to flow uphill to cut down through a ridge. But these actually occur NOT by water flowing uphill, but rather more by obeying the laws of gravity. It FILLS the area on one side of the ridge to overflowing, and then it OVERTOPS the ridge like a dam that overflows. Then the overflow begins, followed by a raging torrent which catastrophically cuts down through the ridge to the other side, producing a water level crossing of the ridge or mountain range,

    • @the_pov_channel
      @the_pov_channel  Місяць тому +2

      Fascinating. thanks for the knowledge share that was really interesting. Never heard of this phenomenon before

    • @paulbriggs3072
      @paulbriggs3072 Місяць тому +3

      @@the_pov_channel There are many in the west, and in the east, the Appalachians alone have many thousands of them. Where no water flows through them anymore, they are called wind gaps. The most famous of these lesser examples is the storied Cumberland Gap of Daniel Boone fame to migrate beyond the mountains of Virginia into Kentucky and westward. Some water gaps actually cut through multiple mountain ridges showing signs of truly epic flooding, Pennsylvania has numerous examples of multiple successive water gaps cut by the same river. The most named water gap in the east is the very large Delaware Water Gap -part of a National Park in New Jersey. The Delaware River flows through it from one side of the mountains through to the other side. One of the largest is the Hudson Highlands which is now recognized by geologists as a massive water gap. The mighty Hudson River cuts through solid granite 1200 feet high elevation (actually 1400 hundred feet counting the underwater portion) for an epic 12 miles southward through the high hills of eastern New York. Here a site showing a portion of it: www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/fjord-trail-controversy-highlands-cold-spring-18102908.php
      Here is a site showing the similarly impressive Delaware Water Gap:
      www.poconomountains.com/blog/post/the-insiders-guide-to-delaware-water-gap/

    • @quixote5844
      @quixote5844 16 днів тому

      @@paulbriggs3072
      The Appalachians are much older than the mountains in the West. Takes a long time for rivers to break through those meanders.

    • @paulbriggs3072
      @paulbriggs3072 15 днів тому

      @@quixote5844 No this is not an example of meanders meeting. 3:05 in the video is not from meanders meeting but from water gaps.

  • @Barisxoxo
    @Barisxoxo 26 днів тому +3

    I absolutely this channel, thanks to you I discovered many places and brought to me a huge love and curiosity to explore remote places on our beautiful planet.
    The place I've learnt about thanks to this channel and I still think about it is the "Volcan Extinto" one in northern Mexico. I 100% plan to go there in the future.

  • @huskytail
    @huskytail 29 днів тому +1

    I also love the double meander of Arda river in Bulgaria and the meanders near Madjarovo. Stunning places 🥰

  • @ozAqVvhhNue
    @ozAqVvhhNue Місяць тому +4

    Very interesting video, the biggest Meander we have here in Germany is the Saarschleife. But compared to the Bowknot Bend it is laughably small XD

  • @michaelfoley6670
    @michaelfoley6670 Місяць тому

    I love your content Nolan! Abandoned meanders are really interesting places to explore. I have found them to have their own unique ecosystems, with plant and animal life that somehow feels different than the main channels.its almost like they became frozen in time in my opinion… Thanks for sharing another great video!

  • @patrickenglish1629
    @patrickenglish1629 Місяць тому +2

    Visited #5 on houseboat and jet ski. So cool to have been there. I’m kinda obsessed with old meanders on the Mississippi River. Beautiful to look at on google maps.

  • @garytull7730
    @garytull7730 Місяць тому +7

    Very interesting list, it's great that your interests are similar to many of ours. Just saying the word "meander" has a relaxing effect on me.

    • @I_am_Junebug
      @I_am_Junebug Місяць тому

      Me too. I love that word! Meander... 🥰😅

  • @dcallan812
    @dcallan812 Місяць тому +13

    Great video and a very interesting subject. 2x👍

  • @UpshiftMediaMD
    @UpshiftMediaMD Місяць тому

    Bro, I live for these vids. I want to see you be super successful. Keep up the good work.

  • @zoraortiz5543
    @zoraortiz5543 Місяць тому +1

    A great video. Something I would never have thought of. Thank you for sharing!

  • @ricardomunoz9162
    @ricardomunoz9162 Місяць тому

    Incredible video, information as always. Thanks to you we have the opportunity to visit all these places. Keep up the amazing job!
    Cannot wait for the next video. Thanks 👍🏼💯

  • @HeidiWohlbier
    @HeidiWohlbier Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for the trip around the world. Looking forward to your next adventure

  • @josephchandler8358
    @josephchandler8358 Місяць тому +1

    That was awesome, thanks for the vid!! Excellent echo

  • @dtork47
    @dtork47 Місяць тому

    Thanks for the great info and visual tour, your channel is one of the best! Stay safe out there.

  • @williampacey9194
    @williampacey9194 Місяць тому +2

    Thanks again for showing this ole man great looking places and very educational descriptions.

  • @unairamos74
    @unairamos74 29 днів тому +3

    3:43 That's no desert in Spain, by far. Quite the contrary, it's a very fertile land with dozens of small and beautiful towns by the shore of the most important river in the Iberian Peninsula (iberian comes from Iberis, roman for Ebro, by the way)

  • @Jenn_B
    @Jenn_B Місяць тому

    Great video! Reminds me of one of your early google earth videos...the photographer and model caught in the flash flood. Great job!!

  • @majipoorsbeard
    @majipoorsbeard Місяць тому +1

    Stunning amazing work on google and in person. Love your use of drones. One thing though, where's the world's greatest dog? He was completely missing, I want Twog!

  • @irsh3674
    @irsh3674 5 днів тому

    I went on a week-long canoe trip August 2023 and we camped just before the start of bow knot bend 9:21
    Words cannot describe the beauty of this place. You are truly alone and surrounded by beauty

  • @chippywarren9706
    @chippywarren9706 Місяць тому

    This was an Incredibly interesting video. Thank you very much 👍

  • @ryangamv8
    @ryangamv8 19 днів тому

    Really appreciate you putting metric conversions on the screen 👍

  • @sonyaandreanoff6765
    @sonyaandreanoff6765 Місяць тому +1

    Check out the Holitna River in Alaska… I’ve lived there a few decades ago and while it’s not really a canyon, it does have interesting meanders and ox bow lakes!!

  • @Landcheyenne
    @Landcheyenne Місяць тому +1

    👍 Another one ,Dragon River. The mythological shape of the Odeleite, located in the Caestro Marim municipality in Portugal. 😉

  • @MushtaqAhmed-y1l
    @MushtaqAhmed-y1l 27 днів тому

    Classic bro.
    Your content is great❤❤❤

  • @davidlawson6238
    @davidlawson6238 Місяць тому

    Love your content keep up the good work !!

  • @kevinschreiner4179
    @kevinschreiner4179 Місяць тому +2

    I also 2 rivers that immediately come to mind!
    Karatal river in Kazakhstan right before it flows into lake Balkhash
    The Moselle in Germany and the Saarschleife (They are pretty close together)

  • @Openhearted2024
    @Openhearted2024 Місяць тому

    Finally, I could watch through without my heart dropping into my stomach. 😂 looking forward to the next one.

  • @tammydavenport24
    @tammydavenport24 Місяць тому

    Thank you for this unique plethora of very wonderful information any budding geologist would love!

  • @seabertotter4325
    @seabertotter4325 Місяць тому +1

    Another wonderful video! Say hi to Chewy!

  • @SeadogSeven
    @SeadogSeven Місяць тому +5

    Cracked me up!!! "Get a job, river."

  • @dezertraider
    @dezertraider Місяць тому +1

    FANTASTIC.THANK YOU

  • @browndog666ify
    @browndog666ify Місяць тому +3

    Oxbow lakes are called
    Billabongs here in Australia

  • @GalaticPanda
    @GalaticPanda Місяць тому +1

    Love this channel 🫡😌

  • @piotr-lt4zz
    @piotr-lt4zz Місяць тому

    Superb video! One of your best!

  • @focusrssteve
    @focusrssteve Місяць тому

    Thank you, very cool video, my man!

  • @chrisk28
    @chrisk28 Місяць тому

    Thanks so much for sharing an awesome and educationamal fillum presentation once again. I now intend to meander through this lazy Sunday.

  • @ArthurH11
    @ArthurH11 Місяць тому

    Love your videos and your doggo brother. Keep it up and be careful

  • @lindawarrell4281
    @lindawarrell4281 Місяць тому

    Loved it! Missed your dog!

  • @MythixcalSky
    @MythixcalSky Місяць тому +1

    4:50 dang that's quite awesome dude!

  • @LucidLifeVibes
    @LucidLifeVibes Місяць тому +3

    Fascinating

  • @anandwwjd
    @anandwwjd Місяць тому

    Amazing collection of river patterns.The lazier the river, the better it is for the earth and mankind. You have better water percolation and more deposits of silt.

  • @dam-q9l
    @dam-q9l Місяць тому +2

    Forgot to say thank you in my previous comment. Thank you. Like others, you are one of the few that I allow notifications.

  • @Fido-vm9zi
    @Fido-vm9zi Місяць тому

    Excellent presentation! Thank you!

  • @basil8940
    @basil8940 2 години тому

    Finke gorge is an interesting one. It's an ancient river bedding its meanders over plain. The plain has eroded away over the eons revealing an even more ancient mountain below it, but the rivers gentle meanders stayed the same cutting the meanders through the mountains as if they don't exist.

  • @kemasuk
    @kemasuk 7 днів тому

    You should check out Alaska's Seward Peninsula. There are some crazy deltas and meanders, if not as large (or probably as old) as the ones featured in the video.

  • @sirbones
    @sirbones 22 дні тому

    Awesome video, man! I like the small jokes now and then.

  • @BaconSquishy
    @BaconSquishy 21 день тому

    Beautiful footage and video!

  • @dunedain3892
    @dunedain3892 Місяць тому

    Very interesting, and nicely done. I'm betting Viktor Schauberger would have been impressed.

  • @michaeltaylor4984
    @michaeltaylor4984 Місяць тому +2

    'Hoo-dee-hoo is my favorite echo.

  • @isaacdaugherity5705
    @isaacdaugherity5705 Місяць тому

    Only videos I watch at work/lunch been waiting for new uploads lol 😆🫡

  • @uberben
    @uberben Місяць тому

    Dead Horse Point in Moab, UT has a great view of some awesome meandering of the Colorado river. To get there you have to drive along the top of one of those meanders and is only the width of the road at one point. The drop off and views are amazing.

  • @billy3114
    @billy3114 Місяць тому

    This is one of my favorite channels and your videos have inspired me to get a drone to capture my adventures different and I'm wondering what drone you use for these videos

  • @samblethen
    @samblethen Місяць тому

    Thanks for another great video

  • @sheaandtesla4599
    @sheaandtesla4599 Місяць тому

    Man what a cool video it's insane what's out there. And you're a legend for shouting out #junglekeepers 🙏. Much love from Australia brother ✌️✌️✌️

    • @the_pov_channel
      @the_pov_channel  Місяць тому

      much love to you. I might be headed your way someday soon...

  • @Skinflaps_Meatslapper
    @Skinflaps_Meatslapper Місяць тому

    The Pecos and Rio Grande rivers have some really interesting meanders and dry oxbows. The Rio Grande in particular has a lot of them that are a point of contention between the US and Mexico, as some less than scrupulous individuals have tried to cut through and change national borders in order to gain land. There's one between El Paso and Presidio, kinda close to Van Horn, where you can see landowners on both sides doing their best to bolster the banks of the river with berms and such to either prevent a change or attempt to force a change in its path, which I thought was amusing. All along that stretch of the Rio Grande are places that the border is constantly changing and in some spots it's hard to tell which route the river is taking. Then there's one south of the Brownsville airport where a 500 acre piece of Mexico juts out 1.5 miles into Texas separated by a narrow .3 mile strip that connects it to Mexico, and the interesting thing is that there's a second meander there that makes the river path over 5.5 miles from that point. There's another one just west of Brownsville, upstream from there, that's 200 acres with 2.5 miles of river surrounding it, and only 150ft separating the river on either side...just big enough for a one lane dirt road to access the land. Several other examples are upstream of that point as well. Dozens of places on the Pecos where there's only 20ft separating the river on either side of a bend, you'd think one good flood would solve that problem and turn it into an oxbow, but the Pecos hasn't had that kind of water in a really long time. Really easy to spot ancient oxbows all along both rivers, some of them are huge.

  • @Boydar
    @Boydar Місяць тому

    Absolutely amazing!

  • @dfmdoes
    @dfmdoes 15 днів тому

    Love this. Random question I didn’t know I wanted answered lol I love UA-cam lol

  • @Mountlougallops
    @Mountlougallops Місяць тому

    Thanks for this!

  • @JUSTmeESTFG
    @JUSTmeESTFG Місяць тому

    Dope video and shouted out Jungle Keepers. Subscribed

  • @TheMoofy8
    @TheMoofy8 Місяць тому

    wow! phenomenal topic and depiction!

  • @dudleydogism
    @dudleydogism Місяць тому

    Thank you, fascinating information.

  • @valeriejh8926
    @valeriejh8926 Місяць тому

    Great video the content is fascinating.

  • @quixote5844
    @quixote5844 16 днів тому

    Having floated the San Juan and Green Rivers, from river level, you don’t even notice you are winding through those meanders, go to Goosenecks State Park in Utah to see them from above.

  • @greasher926
    @greasher926 28 днів тому

    One of the biggest bends has to be the Volga River at Samara. There is an isthmus that is only 1.28 miles long (caused by the flooded reservoir), but the river travels for about 100 miles to meet up at the other side. Not sure why the Soviets never built a canal/lock to create a short cut.
    There is also another very interesting feather with the Amur river where there is a lake (Bol’shiye Kizi Ozero) that forms in an inland delta, and that lake is only about 4.5 miles from the sea, however the river empties out about another hundred miles up the coast, and the river flows an extra 200 miles to reach the coast.

  • @SheWasADemon
    @SheWasADemon Місяць тому

    Love your PH content xoxo

  • @monorail4252
    @monorail4252 21 день тому

    The Everglades is also one of the most meadering rivers along with the Mississippi around delta environments.

  • @Nachtschicht1
    @Nachtschicht1 Місяць тому

    A lot of fascinating rivers and bends. Some suggestions:
    Take a look at northern Siberia. Rivers and ponds are really going crazy there.
    An example for what happens if you entrust the job of marking a border to a river is the border between Croatia and Serbia, wich is supposed to follow the Danube. Bad idea...

  • @paulbriggs3072
    @paulbriggs3072 Місяць тому

    There are simple tests that show that fast flowing rivers can meander a lot. In fact when your windshield is clean and the wipers off, and a heavy downpour occurs, you will often see fast winding rivulets of water meandering down your windshield changing course rapidly.

  • @karenekins8805
    @karenekins8805 Місяць тому

    Fascinating!!!

  • @TheLuckyluc555
    @TheLuckyluc555 Місяць тому

    this channel was a good find

  • @karankumbhar7749
    @karankumbhar7749 6 днів тому

    The urge to break those meanders and create oxbow lakes >>>

  • @pinkfedoras
    @pinkfedoras 23 дні тому

    "Seriously... get a job, river." might be the greatest quote of all time

  • @ELMS
    @ELMS Місяць тому

    I just got back from a trip to Goosenecks. All I can say is “Wow”.

  • @holtlathren
    @holtlathren Місяць тому

    best channel

  • @johneckel7281
    @johneckel7281 Місяць тому

    Another river you can add to the list is the Mississippi river which meanders for nearly its entire length. At the Kentucky/Missouri
    border there is a 19 mile section that comes within 1.2 miles of itself. The canyons are missing, but give it time.

  • @monorail4252
    @monorail4252 21 день тому

    Water always finds the easiest route. A change in geology that has a more erosion resist rock means it takes more time to erode to cut off the original path of the river.

  • @Daya9024-d7l
    @Daya9024-d7l 24 дні тому

    I like your videos

  • @primarytrainer1
    @primarytrainer1 17 днів тому

    9:30 what you mean to say is rincon
    "Rincon is a term used in the southwestern U.S. to describe a dry, semicircular canyon with a butte in the middle. It is the remnant of an entrenched cutoff river meander."

  • @ephjay6t87
    @ephjay6t87 21 день тому

    My favorite way to view these lazy rivers is by floating lazily in my boat. Thank you

  • @petervinogradov12
    @petervinogradov12 7 днів тому

    Although its not so dramatically impressive as these desert canyons, I'd recommend taking a look at Samara Bend on the Volga in Russia. It creates a massive peninsula that is over an eighty mile curb from its closest connection.

  • @capitanshaf5751
    @capitanshaf5751 Місяць тому

    How beautiful our earth is. These places look "isolated" but we (in this modern age) are the ones truly isolated.

  • @vinnybonboot
    @vinnybonboot 23 дні тому

    I play a lot of D&D and I love making maps for our campaign. This video made me realize my rivers are just too straight lol

  • @JoshuaGrisewood
    @JoshuaGrisewood 2 дні тому

    Genesee river in Ny including letchworth state park has a ton of these meanders! I noticed it has a lot of closed off oxbows too it seems even has a place nickednamed "hogsback" for the formation by the meander

  • @wojciechporczynski3692
    @wojciechporczynski3692 9 днів тому

    You should look at Cesky krumlov in the czech republic, its an entire medieval town built on a meander on the Vltava river.

  • @alienallen2983
    @alienallen2983 Місяць тому

    Nice THANK YOU 👍🙏>>>💚

  • @BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm
    @BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm Місяць тому

    Enjoyed 👁️👍🔔✨