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!
@@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.
@@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.
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
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!😊👍👍👍
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.
Hi Nolan: This is an amazing video, tremendous amount of research and video editing. Very interesting and educational. Total "Wow !!" effect. Stay safe.
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)
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.
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.
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 👍🏼💯
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 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/
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!
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!
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
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)
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!!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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!
Yep, I didn't articulate this properly in the video. Thanks for the knowledge!
The Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania is a nice example of an entrenched meander.
@@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.
Which video’s of Nick Zentner is about entrenched meanders?
Yapanese
smooth ass google earth animations. can imagine they were a lot harder than they look
thx
@@the_pov_channel's reaction: ua-cam.com/video/L20fStwirqo/v-deo.html
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.
So many country band names inspired by, well, the country side xD
One of the few channels I have notifications on for. Love it!
Thank you 🙏
@@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.
I was just wondering when you would post again, and here you are. Wonderful video!! Thank you, Nolan :)
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
Thanks for showing the wildest parts of NA in the best form and style. Greetings from Poland.
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!😊👍👍👍
Hope to always keep it that way
@@the_pov_channel 😊👍👍👍
Wow!!!!! Beautiful and interesting. Great vid! Loved the echo too!!!!!
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.
Hi Nolan: This is an amazing video, tremendous amount of research and video editing. Very interesting and educational. Total "Wow !!" effect. Stay safe.
Great video and a very interesting subject. 2x👍
👍I dig all your videos!
Great video. That echo was epic!
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.
Me too. I love that word! Meander... 🥰😅
Thanks again for showing this ole man great looking places and very educational descriptions.
Great work! Other places to check out for great meanders are Siberia, the Congo river, Alaska and Mississippi !
That was awesome, thanks for the vid!! Excellent echo
Greetings from Spain, not far from the Ebro River.
Neat
@@the_pov_channel having just passed by Miranda del Ebro and Viktoria-Gasteiz , thats a mystical place ...
Una polla
de qué parte eres? jaja
@@CHEMAURO. De Valencia,pero para esta gente eso es un paseo 😅
I also love the double meander of Arda river in Bulgaria and the meanders near Madjarovo. Stunning places 🥰
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)
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.
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
A great video. Something I would never have thought of. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the great info and visual tour, your channel is one of the best! Stay safe out there.
Thanks for the trip around the world. Looking forward to your next adventure
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.
Bro, I live for these vids. I want to see you be super successful. Keep up the good work.
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 👍🏼💯
Another wonderful video! Say hi to Chewy!
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,
Fascinating. thanks for the knowledge share that was really interesting. Never heard of this phenomenon before
@@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/
@@paulbriggs3072
The Appalachians are much older than the mountains in the West. Takes a long time for rivers to break through those meanders.
@@quixote5844 No this is not an example of meanders meeting. 3:05 in the video is not from meanders meeting but from water gaps.
Love your content keep up the good work !!
Superb video! One of your best!
Fascinating
Beautiful footage and video!
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!
Classic bro.
Your content is great❤❤❤
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!
wow! phenomenal topic and depiction!
Love this channel 🫡😌
Excellent presentation! Thank you!
Great video! Reminds me of one of your early google earth videos...the photographer and model caught in the flash flood. Great job!!
FANTASTIC.THANK YOU
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
Great video the content is fascinating.
Absolutely amazing!
Thank you, very cool video, my man!
This was an Incredibly interesting video. Thank you very much 👍
Thanks for another great video
4:50 dang that's quite awesome dude!
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)
Thank you for this unique plethora of very wonderful information any budding geologist would love!
Love your videos and your doggo brother. Keep it up and be careful
Dope video and shouted out Jungle Keepers. Subscribed
Finally, I could watch through without my heart dropping into my stomach. 😂 looking forward to the next one.
Loved it! Missed your dog!
Amazing 👏 🤩 🙀 😯
Awesome video, man! I like the small jokes now and then.
Thanks so much for sharing an awesome and educationamal fillum presentation once again. I now intend to meander through this lazy Sunday.
Thank you, fascinating information.
Love your PH content xoxo
Forgot to say thank you in my previous comment. Thank you. Like others, you are one of the few that I allow notifications.
Thats huge. Really appreciate that
Thanks for this!
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!!
Really appreciate you putting metric conversions on the screen 👍
Oxbow lakes are called
Billabongs here in Australia
Yall have the best names for stuff
👍 Another one ,Dragon River. The mythological shape of the Odeleite, located in the Caestro Marim municipality in Portugal. 😉
Fascinating!!!
Enjoyed 👁️👍🔔✨
Nice THANK YOU 👍🙏>>>💚
Love this. Random question I didn’t know I wanted answered lol I love UA-cam lol
this channel was a good find
I like your videos
Only videos I watch at work/lunch been waiting for new uploads lol 😆🫡
best channel
'Hoo-dee-hoo is my favorite echo.
Loved it
Cracked me up!!! "Get a job, river."
Very interesting, and nicely done. I'm betting Viktor Schauberger would have been impressed.
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.
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 ✌️✌️✌️
much love to you. I might be headed your way someday soon...
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.
“Seriously, get a job, River”
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
DJi mini 3 pro
Very very very cool
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.
Some rivers really be looking like Minecraft generated.
It’s olmost like Minecraft rivers were coded to look like them…
@ I olmost didn’t know that! 🤯
"Seriously... get a job, river." might be the greatest quote of all time
Well hello 🤗🙏💜
The urge to break those meanders and create oxbow lakes >>>
How beautiful our earth is. These places look "isolated" but we (in this modern age) are the ones truly isolated.
The Everglades is also one of the most meadering rivers along with the Mississippi around delta environments.
I just got back from a trip to Goosenecks. All I can say is “Wow”.
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.
Thanks, Nolan.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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