The most Absurd Meanders on Google Earth

[@lapatron555]

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]

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

[@johnmcnulty4425]

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

[@riroo8275]

@@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]

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

[@unoverse0168]

Yapanese

[@juliangeorge2026]

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

[@the_pov_channel]

thx

[@thoroughlyunoriginalname]

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[@I_am_Junebug]

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]

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

[@frostbyte101]

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

[@the_pov_channel]

Thank you 🙏

[@Mr_Friendly_B]

@@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]

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

[@the_pov_channel]

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]

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

[@ARose4UTube]

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]

Hope to always keep it that way

[@ARose4UTube]

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[@paulbriggs3072]

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]

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

[@paulbriggs3072]

@@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]

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

[@paulbriggs3072]

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

[@xxPROMETHEUSxx1.]

Great video. That echo was epic!

[@dcallan812]

Great video and a very interesting subject. 2x👍

[@newworldsoldier81]

Greetings from Spain, not far from the Ebro River.

[@the_pov_channel]

Neat

[@gui18bif]

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

[@TripleZetta]

Una polla

[@CHEMAURO.]

de qué parte eres? jaja

[@newworldsoldier81]

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

[@martincarles1054]

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

[@Nat-rs6up]

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

[@joemcintyre2090]

👍I dig all your videos!

[@CoolCurzon]

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

[@zoraortiz5543]

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

[@garytull7730]

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]

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

[@josephchandler8358]

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

[@HeidiWohlbier]

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

[@ozAqVvhhNue]

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

[@Barisxoxo]

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.

[@MythixcalSky]

4:50 dang that's quite awesome dude!

[@unairamos74]

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)

[@colors4335]

The Ebro passes through the Monegros desert

[@unairamos74]

@@colors4335 those images are not from Monegros

[@williampacey9194]

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

[@TheAnarchitek]

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.

[@karankumbhar7749]

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

[@patrickenglish1629]

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.

[@michaelfoley6670]

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!

[@ricardomunoz9162]

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 👍🏼💯

[@piotr-lt4zz]

Superb video! One of your best!

[@huskytail]

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

[@seabertotter4325]

Another wonderful video! Say hi to Chewy!

[@tomfarnsworth950]

I spent a lot of time hiking the areas around the end of the San Juan/Lake Powell. It's really interesting place. My favorite was to hike up from near the upper end of those meanders and get up to the Peekaboo Arches just down river/lake from Neskahi Bay. That whole area is fascinating. Your very last pic of what an old oxbow looked like is the Rincon on the Colorado River side of Lake Powell near Iceberg Canyon. I've hike all the way around the oxbow, finding all sorts of old mining equipment. There's a road that comes down the east side of that oxbow and hiking up to the top is interesting. One can go from there over to look down on the Great Bend of the San Juan. All your examples were quite interesting, but I love the desert southwest and enjoy seeing all sorts of thing. I'm surprised you didn't mention anything in the Grand Canyon. Rafting through the Icebox, there are curves and turns everywhere. The walls are so steep, there's not much direct sunlight, hence the nickname "Icebox." Great video.

[@chippywarren9706]

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

[@MushtaqAhmed-y1l]

Classic bro. Your content is great❤❤❤

[@Jenn_B]

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

[@Openhearted2024]

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

[@dezertraider]

FANTASTIC.THANK YOU

[@BaconSquishy]

Beautiful footage and video!

[@UpshiftMediaMD]

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

[@Fido-vm9zi]

Excellent presentation! Thank you!

[@davidlawson6238]

Love your content keep up the good work !!

[@TheMoofy8]

wow! phenomenal topic and depiction!

[@lindawarrell4281]

Loved it! Missed your dog!

[@dtork47]

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

[@focusrssteve]

Thank you, very cool video, my man!

[@irsh3674]

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

[@GalaticPanda]

Love this channel 🫡😌

[@JUSTmeESTFG]

Dope video and shouted out Jungle Keepers. Subscribed

[@chrisk28]

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

[@SeadogSeven]

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

[@Boydar]

Absolutely amazing!

[@spicedlemons]

when you told the river to get a job i almost spit my drink out

[@SheWasADemon]

Love your PH content xoxo

[@isaacdaugherity5705]

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

[@michaeltaylor4984]

'Hoo-dee-hoo is my favorite echo.

[@ArthurH11]

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

[@sirbones]

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

[@valeriejh8926]

Great video the content is fascinating.

[@tammydavenport24]

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

[@ryangamv8]

Really appreciate you putting metric conversions on the screen 👍

[@Landcheyenne]

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

[@majipoorsbeard]

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!

[@browndog666ify]

Oxbow lakes are called Billabongs here in Australia

[@the_pov_channel]

Yall have the best names for stuff

[@pinkfedoras]

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

[@dfmdoes]

Love this. Random question I didn’t know I wanted answered lol I love KZbin lol

[@samblethen]

Thanks for another great video

[@dam-q9l]

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

[@the_pov_channel]

Thats huge. Really appreciate that

[@LucidLifeVibes]

Fascinating

[@dudleydogism]

Thank you, fascinating information.

[@basil8940]

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.

[@sonyaandreanoff6765]

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!!

[@Lougallops]

Thanks for this!

[@kevinschreiner4179]

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)

[@sheaandtesla4599]

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]

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

[@TheLuckyluc555]

this channel was a good find

[@dunedain3892]

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

[@PirataEscondido]

10- Canyonlands National Park, Utah 9- Dinosaur National Monument, Utah 8- Tongue River, Wyoming 7- San Rafael River, Utah 6- Eo River, Spain 5- Rio Colorado, Baja California 4- Painted Desert, Arizona 3- Amazon River, Brazil 2- San Juan River, Utah 1- Green River Bend, Utah

[@burlingtonfan7492]

The southwest has a lot of these more notable ones, but there are plenty to the east too. Specifically there are a few big meanders on the Missouri River in South Dakota, and a weird U shaped one that surrounds New Town ND. Further east there’s one on the Ohio River, and many zig-zags and back-and-forth S shapes on the New River Gorge and the Potomac River in and around West Virginia (You can take a train through both!). Also many fairly curvy rivers in western Pennsylvania as well (Allegheny, Monongahela, etc). If you still stick to the west I’d recommend at least checking out the upper canyons of the Salt River in Arizona, its a very remote and scenic region and the path the river takes is narrow and crazy

[@darlahenri8095]

Amazing 👏 🤩 🙀 😯

[@intreoo]

Last one is the perfect place for a sword fight at sunset

[@Welcometothewild]

I know Paul loves the shutout. thank you for that, we wildmen appreciate the support

[@vinnybonboot]

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

[@monorail4252]

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

[@MoaByte-v2z]

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

[@anandwwjd]

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.

[@kemasuk]

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.

[@BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm]

Enjoyed 👁️👍🔔✨

[@Daya9024-d7l]

I like your videos

[@karenekins8805]

Fascinating!!!

[@primarytrainer1]

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."

[@Narmatonia]

Him standing so close to the edge was giving me anxiety 😅

[@uniseine]

0:07:46 What is the difference between the water level on the left and the water level on the right ?

[@alienallen2983]

Nice THANK YOU 👍🙏>>>💚

[@holtlathren]

best channel

[@user-temps]

What an Art!!

[@natysilva1743]

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[@greasher926]

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.

[@monorail4252]

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.

[@quixote5844]

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.