Why Do Rivers Curve?

Can you find an oxbow lake in GoogleEarth? Share your findings (pictures or coordinates) on Twitter, Facebook and other social media using the hashtag #oxbowlake
CREDITS
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Created by Henry Reich
Production and Writing Team: Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Emily Elert, Ever Salazar, Kate Yoshida, and Henry Reich
Illustration and Animation: Ever Salazar
Narrated by: Emily Elert
Music by Nathaniel Schroeder
"Oxbow" voiceovers by:
Vanessa Hill: / braincraftvideo
Ever Salazar: / everst88
Antoine Coeur: / minutepourlaterre
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River coming from mountain - Google Earth
42°21'35.72" S 173°34'30.41" E
Meandering River - Google Earth Engine
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Under Water 2 - Ken Mankoff
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Oxbow Lake Australia - GoogleEarth
23°41'31.06" S 150°47'53.91" E
Oxbow Lake Colombia - GoogleEarth
3°20'18.70" N 70°07'10.92" O
Oxbow Lake France - Google Earth
46°55'24.16" N 5°19'28.34" E
Dry Oxbow Lake Colorado - Google Earth
32°00'06.80" N 115°07'19.81" O
Martian Rivers on Aeolis Planum - NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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REFERENCES
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Ferreira da Silva, A. M. (2006). On why and how do rivers meander.
Howard, A. D. (2009). How to make a meandering river. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(41), 17245-17246. www.pnas.org/co...
Howard, A. D., & Knutson, T. R. (1984). Sufficient conditions for river meandering: A simulation approach. Water Resources Research, 20(11), 1659-1667. erode.evsc.virg...
Leopold, L. B., & Wolman, M. G. (1960). River meanders. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 71(6), 769-793. www.usu.edu/ja...
Parker, H. (1996). River Meandering as Self-Organization Process. Science,271, 1710. www.f052.it/wat...
Rhoads, B. L., & Welford, M. R. (1991). Initiation of river meandering. Progress in Physical Geography, 15(2), 127-156. www.geog.illino...
Schwenk, Jon. Interview. 9 July 2014.
Seminara, G. (2006). Meanders. Journal of fluid mechanics, 554, 271-297. journals.cambri...
Stølum, H. H. (1998). Planform geometry and dynamics of meandering rivers.Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110(11), 1485-1498. bruche.u-strasb...

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[@pinoquensy]

you commented on your own video 6 YEARS after it was made wow

[@R3YXN121]

Ikr

[@Nowa100]

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NOPE, but I will subscribe 😅

[@AkshayKumar-sd1mx]

That damn squirrel from Ice Age must have caused it.

[@pebblethefox3483]

Akshay Kumar lol yeah

[@HonorJanas]

Dang it, Scrat! You killed some more animals!

[@Bananappleboy]

Scrat: *_NO, I JUST WANTED TO EAT THIS SEED INSIDE THIS ACORN! PLEASE STOP SENDING ASSASSINS TO KILL ME!_* Me: Deal with it scrat, we have other food items to eat besides acorns.

[@KnightoftheSorryFace]

???

[@HonorJanas]

Me: You know what you deserve? Scrat: What? Me: Blue Sky Studios logo. Scrat: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

[@antonioluna770]

Somehow, you created a really sad story about muskrats in a video explaining why rivers have curves, nice.

[@pierredroderique6290]

+Gabriel Hortaleza It's not really a sad story; they make a home, grow old, and eventually die after their young have moved on. It's the story of all life in a time lapse.

[@rudylikestowatch]

+Pierre D Roderique Not sad? At 0:54 we see dad swept away to his death and at 1:13 there's nothing but a skull. Maybe I'm reading too much into it?

[@panner11]

The dad definitely wasn't being swept away. The muskrats need to swim out of their den every time they forage for food. The skull with the picture still hanging on the wall was sad though.

[@yahyachothia]

@@panner11 Yeah but the dad was torn out of the frame.

[@Nileshmadhav95]

@@yahyachothia yeah, swept away

[@AlrycaAeveaHexendias]

1:18 Notice that the family picture has been torn removing one of the parent muskrat, probably the father. Their relationship must've become rocky when their child moved out of the house until they finally divorced. Mother muskrat was left to die alone, explaining the lonely set of skeleton where she once stood.

[@user-dp5fq4vc8m]

Sure, that's why the mother grew a beard to remember the father x)

[@randomdude1060]

Damn

[@AndreasNilsson96]

Its clearly the mother that left...

[@sweetcorm]

It is a very sad story

[@renansilveira2013]

Why in the hell was this in a video about lakes?

[@caidthackeray8896]

I dunno why, but I felt immensely sad when the muskrat died. Edit: I posted this comment like 2 months late and then it blew up. How?

[@DiscoMiata]

Same....

[@mayurdhamale4583]

He's just swimming around, he'll be back soon

[@KarlMySuitcase]

Wait she said that?

[@caidthackeray8896]

@@KarlMySuitcase No, there was a skull.

[@carmineredd1198]

he took the covid jab wittymagazine.com/?s=vaccine

[@Cyfix15]

lol "a little disturbance" shows Darth Vader Lake: I sense a disturbance in the force

[@nameguy101]

+SoldierCyfix Use the force, Lake

[@Cyfix15]

Master, I have sensed a divergence in the lake.

[@Cyfix15]

Search your feelings Lake, you know it to be true

[@kardiona]

Plot twist: Lake is Luke's brother.

[@vincenttouchard9521]

Plot twist: Jar-Jar is a secret Sith Master

[@0ion]

The mars thing at the end blew my mind!!!

[@donesitackacom]

I was like. "Oh, cool...wait...HOLY SHIT...W T F"

[@R4V3-0N]

Mars possibly had flowing lakes, oceans, rivers, lakes, etc at one point, lots of former lake beds and shapes that are created by rivers/ oceans/ lakes/ etc are there: such as certain canyons on mars.

[@williaamlarsson]

+0ion Water on Mars now confirmed!

[@0ion]

***** Heeeell yeah!

[@donesitackacom]

***** i knew it, we did it!!!!!

[@lob19]

Big WOW for the Mars photo at the end. I didn't know that evidence for water flowing in the past on Mars is that .. evident :D

[@nathanyoung3266]

I know. NASA should have hired these guys to make videos for them.

[@ivandonat]

why do you think it has to be water?

[@lob19]

Ivan Pupovac Good point. Could be any other liquid. I suppose. Worth finding out more about it.

[@uhohhotdog]

I doubt it would be any other type of liquid. What liquid do you think could possibly be / have been on Mars?

[@Omni0404]

Mind blown!

[@bartoszlabuc2351]

And I studied geography for five years for what exactly?!?

[@BronkoBanane]

I highly doubt that geography is a real science

[@MarCel-ih6ui]

@@BronkoBanane It is

[@illbeinyourdreams5259]

@@MarCel-ih6ui I thought geology was a sience not geography

[@eleethtahgra7182]

You studied geography so that you'd know the name of the countries outside your border or have the knowledge in how to find the said country on the map. And the name of your states/provinces/region. Stuff like that. Hey, at least when some head of government say lets go to war with country A, you'd know where that country is and its geopolitical relation with its surrounding countries and its problem with your country.

[@tyronicusmaximus4230]

@@eleethtahgra7182 there is a lot more to geography than that

[@afrodude2424]

0:38 Best sad story of all time xd

[@roenero7242]

TheGamerBoi R.I.P. Muskrat mom and dad.

[@davidacosta193]

They didn't die from drowning They ciuld have escaped They just died of natural causes The end.

[@Wolfe-ku2zr]

TheGamerBoi ikr lol

[@ivansarangsang2625]

i see bones :(

[@FootLettuce]

2:23

[@ThatOneJalapenoKid]

Interesting, informative, right to the point, easy to understand, and tought me about a natural lake that i didn't even know existed, and now know how its formed. What an excellent video! Thanks guys!

[@Sad_cup_of_tea_]

1:13 Oh no! the rat and his family died :'(

[@RealVenkatesh]

😥

[@FootLettuce]

2:23

[@Imnotgayyy]

오 안돼! 쥐와 그의 가족이 죽었어

[@brostrod]

Muskrat*

[@reallondong3752]

It’s life :(

[@PedroLopez-ep5fq]

The last question made me giggle, then stop, and lastly made my jaw drop to the floor.

[@grace_stokes25]

I would like to thank my geography teacher for being here

[@labanxirou5573]

Same bro

[@thesciencerapshow]

its MUCH better now i turned it into a rap on my channel!

[@fadedapollo]

I love the form factor of this video. It's so simple, the voices are pleasing, the animations keep my attention, and it's straight to the point

[@gabefitz3663]

So Darth Vader makes rivers?.....FASCINATING

[@landsraad9745]

For non-savy Star Wars enthusiasts. Darth Vader is an antagonist so powerful that his actions create "disturbances in the force". The "force" is a metaphysical energy, like fantasy mana, that "force" sensitive individuals can use to manifest phenomenon. Most powerful individuals can develop a extra sensory feeling, like fantasy Seers, to read the flow of the "force" on a massive scale. Thank you for letting me nerd out o/

[@Meerschweinchen99]

Check out the border between US states Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. It's interesting to see the borders were drawn a while ago when the Mississippi river used to curve certain ways. Now the river is different but the borders remained the same.

[@Husain_bohra]

It's was pretty dope Really

[@antoniovelasco4070]

Cool!

[@aicerg]

That was really cool to look at, thanks

[@amanpandey3031]

This remembers me of my class 10th geography classes, that I've almost forgotten... Those days were just splendid,and my geography teacher were so good . Nostalgia hits hard .. Surely !!!

[@AlltimeConspiracies]

Wait. Rivers curve? Conspiracy. . .

[@ZobsterZombie]

Hahaha

[@1846drte2342342]

Obviously the aliens did it.

[@ErnestJay88]

You know what, ILLUMINATI bend the river !

[@AlltimeConspiracies]

IndraEMC That's what we heard!

[@joshua12345a]

THEY MOVE VIA WEATHER. Must be HAARP Clouds It must be.

[@darkkijin]

I love how Fractals are mentioned in this video, just very subtly

[@LimeyLassen]

They could mention fractals in every episode if they wanted.

[@darkkijin]

Limey Lassen They SHOULD mention fractals in every video. They're amazing!

[@Goabnb94]

Calm down Vihart

[@trashqueeen]

You know, after an oxbow lake forms,wouldn't the resulting river get curvy again, within the existing curves, also like a fractal? Like a koch curve maybe. Just a thought I had when they mentioned the fractals.

[@trashqueeen]

jamiec24925 It also reminds me of that one Vihart video where she described different types of squiggles, and which squiggle would be the most space-filling, etc

[@fangirlfortheages5940]

I shared this video with my 8th grade earth science teacher and she absolutely loved it. This video taught the mechanics of rivers better than any single diagram alone and it’s helped so many students

[@jwright3]

if you pause it at 2:35 the inverted reliefs below the message bubble kind of spell out "USA"... ...more fodder for conspiracy

[@umnikos]

wow...

[@chingcuifjsjjsjdjdjd7550]

+Johnny Wright illuminati cnfirme hide ur children

[@rolandramos3720]

OMG A CODE

[@rolandramos3720]

+Mr. tornado I'm 7

[@Thundernin]

What more proof do you need? Obama is a shape-shifting lizard-man from Alpha Centauri. Mr.President show us your galactic birth certificate.

[@Wolfrsmv]

Next: why does religion suck?

[@5heeshi]

Why does it bother you so much?

[@lightsidemaster]

I'm sure there's a black metal song about that lol

[@verdiss7487]

Because the mythologies that the religions are built upon are old and out of date, meaning the message they convey is not properly applicable to the modern world.

[@BDBK666]

Verdiss I know right. Don't kill, don't steal...Super outdated.

[@5heeshi]

Verdiss The mythos is only a small part of religion. For many religion helps deal with pain and problems. Helps people be charitable and kind. The modern atheist movement seems to lack manners, patience and kindness because there is nothing there. A world without religion would not be a utopia as atheists dream about. It would be 'the strongest survives' where morality takes a back foot to statistics. Also atheists need to stop hijacking science like it's the same thing. It's religion vs atheism not religion vs science. That's like religion hijacking a field and every time that field does something we be like "Fuck you atheists"

[@Jerbod2]

The Dutch version of that stretch of river that become obsolete was Hoefijzermeer. Litterally translated Hoof-iron-lake. A hoof-iron is a horseshoe, and it looks just like that.

[@OMGItzFokral]

Words are cool.

[@swissphan18]

The Germans call it what it cointains: Altwasser, which means old water. So yeah. En gruet van Zwitserland!! (Did I say that right??)

[@evklinken]

+swissman17 *groeten uit ;)

[@swissphan18]

evklinken darn, but me trying at dutch is the same as for you to be trying at Swiss German:-) You know what this means?? : «Wieso löset d'Albaner kei Chrüüzworträtsel??» «Weel's Angscht händ e Heireis z'gwünne!!» Why don't you try to make a wild guess and ask for the translation if you can't figure it out?? (It's a Swiss joke btw.) :-)

[@Jerbod2]

swiss Man 17 Why loses an Albanian (?) crosswordpuzzle (kruiswoordraadsel) :)

[@EBProductions]

that last question hit me hard!

[@InterrobangActivate]

Same here :D

[@nicholastodd7040]

EB Productions Try converting what Curiosity says, 0011111100100001, to text somewhere like here. www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp

[@Mon-ey5mb]

That last sentence about Mars surface🔥. What a creative way of putting things.

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Nobody: MinuteEarthumbnails: D A R T H V A D E R

[@MarCel-ih6ui]

Nobody-memes are out of date. you may leave now

[@KnightoftheSorryFace]

Because a disturbance caused it... A disturbance in the force.

[@niadavies8818]

May the fourth be with you! (For future readers of this comment I'm writing this on 4th May 2020)

[@eyosimaregu9089]

@@MarCel-ih6ui vvm0N AZXa2Z ZZZ OX

[@Blurritos]

My exam is tomorrow, and watching this video craps up the materials required. Thanks a lot. Liked

[@Blurritos]

Blurritos Wraps*

[@KiloByte69]

I prefer "craps".

[@pedrojuan8050]

Short and straight to the point. If only TV ads were all like this.

[@Otzkar]

2:30 0011111100100001 translates to '?!'

[@MinuteEarth]

Nice catch :)

[@bonnie_dearest]

Oskar Evans what?

[@dash0173]

it's binary code, kiera, the language that computers "talk" in

[@bonnie_dearest]

adza botchway I mean what dose it say

[@Otzkar]

Kiera Wiggins it says "?!"

[@ProGamer_69420]

i stopped watching this channel 4 or 5 years ago, and i have now returned

[@idog805]

The got attached to the rats and got happy when the child went off to college and got sad when one died :(

[@angeloaquino6766]

"It's curves will become curvier and curvier, until it loops around and bumps into themselves." *choke

[@TheScienceBiome]

This is my favourite minute earth video! That aha moment that made me understand why rivers meander was just amazing. I hope my content can have the same explanatory power as yours does one day.

[@femboyskeleton9150]

You cannot just drop the remnants of what looks like an oxbow lake on Mars on me at the end of the video with no explanation! Damn you minute earth! Damn you!

[@Kenan-Z]

The river Meander, from which the verb meander originates, is in western Türkiye. It is called "Menderes Nehri" nowadays. It meanders gracefully through several plains and flows into the Aegean, near where I live.

[@DevinAK49]

Wonderful explanation. Also I like the new voice. Great addition to an awesome channel.

[@GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

Oxbow lakes are formed when a river's meander is too wibbly wibbly wobbly to maintain the course it's on.

[@gilgabro420]

just like humans it takes grate effort to follow a straight path.

[@apostleofthekube3097]

The main flow of the stream diverts itself accordingly, leaving the oxbow lake behind; but here's my question son.

[@excinerus]

What the hell's an oxbow, are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry ? someone should tell me , do i need to buy a shield ?

[@martint1775]

For the curious and lazy people out there.. The robot at 2:30 said ?!

[@OrangeC7]

Markus Stromme is secretly Yoda shhhhh don't tell anyone ;)

[@kainraab]

Markus Strømme just tell me what it said

[@mirhasanoddname]

It said "?!". Literally.

[@GAND-OZZ]

Or in binary number code, it said 63 33

[@GippyHappy]

My favorite thing is that it’s sort of a never ending cycle. The river begins to curve until it bumps into itself, then it’s straight again, and the cycle continues.

[@colfdralegend]

This is actually one thing I remember from school, guess I found it interesting

[@pflaffik]

and thats why we never invite the Colfdras to parties.

[@colfdralegend]

@@pflaffik I’ve never felt so offended by something I am perfectly fine with

[@mage443]

Omg I remember watching this in class like 6 yrs ago. Good times!

[@KyleGK01]

I remember learning this somewhere but i dont remember where. And now that useless knowledge is in my mind and i will always be reminded of it when i see that curving lake on the facebook ad.

[@solancan1287]

This video is entirely wrong. Curves are caused by the moon and its gravitational pull. As it orbits one way, it pulls the stream to it. Then when the moon passes from the opposite horizon, it then pulls it back the other way. Perhaps if the author of this video had of visited /r/science on reddit, they would have known this.

[@nekopariah6306]

/s

[@tisebi14]

Troll guy is being trolly

[@PlaidHiker]

I hope you are being sarcastic.

[@ChristianTipling]

I read something like this on lies my History Teacher told me. Another lie was that the Athenians made the first written language, NOPE, it was Africa Visit us at /r/blackhistory on reddit to learn more.

[@tisebi14]

Christian Tipling How is that relevant to what i said?

[@kiro9291]

omg the binary at the end translates to ?!

[@BhupinderSinghSaini1]

+Po Yao “Kiro” Cheong yeah but into translates into ?!

[@kiro9291]

Bhupinder Saini what ?!

[@RacistZebraa]

+Po Yao “Kiro” Cheong Apparently it's this : "?!"

[@kyleclegg89]

+Racist Zebra it translates into "?!" I'm reference to the questions in an exclamatory fashion in the video

[@231luffy]

neks ASCII

[@laurentiucristian1]

I learn lots of useless information at school, but never ever they told me this. I had to memorize the capital of every country in the world, but I didn't had to explain some elementary things like this.

[@leninsamson3847]

I love how during the explanation with the muskrat disturbance that if you watch closely you can see the muskrat family slowly grow up

[@nothinginparticular9345]

I like how she just slams proof of earlier life on Mars in your face at the end lol

[@uncleiroh6611]

This video is basically saying that muskrats are Darth Vader Maybe not but I suppose they make a good pet for him!!!!!!!!!!

[@IamJay]

Now i know where the brand "billabong" means.

[@SleepIntoTheDiamondLife]

2:15 in my mother tongue, it's a Ashwakhurakriti Hrad (meaning a lake in the shape of a horseshoe).

[@DragonCanyon]

1:09 - 1:10 - 1:11 - 1:12 Shell!

[@ludwincolmenero2629]

I remember a boring 50 min geography class in High School about this, and you explained it in 3:00 min

[@thesciencerapshow]

but did they explain it in a 2 minute rap? only on my channel is that achievable!

[@がんのりだよ]

とても分かりやすい、ありがとう

[@EdwardBerner]

But, and correct me if I'm wrong, aren't there studies that liquid water tends to meander even on really uniform, level, hydrofobic surfaces? Why is that? I mean, there can be no soil and very little irregularities to start the meandering. Is it just that even a small difference is enough to kick this process into progress? (Will try to find a source, and come back to edit it in later. Possibly an answer even, if I can find one.) EDIT: Okay, here's one source article from 1984 Cambridge: journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FFLM%2FFLM149%2FS002211208400255Xa.pdf&code=1eeff1156ef7a855ec9cdaa4de02bcf5 Will keep on looking for an answer. Based on the synopsis, that paper might even have some answers, but don't have time to go through it right now... :/

[@seigeengine]

So I read that, and did some Googling because lolwut hysteresis. So the paper suggests that it's caused by surface tension. Basically, the water hitting the surface of the plexiglass comes in contact with the irregular (on a microscopic scale) structure of the polymer. This causes the water to have irregular surface tension, which "pulls" the water towards the thinner side (higher surface area/volume ratio). Then as the water starts swinging in that direction, which part of the stream is thinner changes, pulling it back in the other direction. This forms the meandering path a river usually takes. All of which does NOT suggest this effect manifests on the scale of entire rivers, and the explanation presented in this video is agreed upon by every credible source I can find.

[@EdwardBerner]

seigeengine Ah, thank you very much :) That sounds like a very reasonable explanation. I wasn't suggesting that the explanation on the scale of rivers presented here is wrong, I had heard this elsewhere before in some form as well :) I was just interested to know, what the explanation is on the small scale "smooth" surfaces

[@seigeengine]

EdwardBerner I just didn't want anyone going around telling people rivers meander because of surface tension. :P This is a really interesting topic for me (particularly the patterns) because I have a minor interest in terrain generation. I remember a few years ago I coded up a map generator that used multiple layers of perlin noise representing different factors (temp, humidity, and elevation if I recall), and then based on that coloured in the regions differently based on a set of biomes. Now, it didn't very well represent realistic terrain, but it was appealing, and it would certainly suffice for fantastical settings. Being able to add realistic details, like weather factors, rivers, etc. would be great. Especially because with rivers I could likely implement some kind of populator that would place cities around the map too.

[@azmanabdula]

seigeengine Basically the same as how people think the Coriolis effects drains and the way water flows... wrong scale : P

[@seigeengine]

azmanabdula Mhm, but it is interesting how water has the same behaviour on two scales for two entirely different reasons.

[@Colaman112]

We have officially the best name for the oxbow lakes. We call them "makkarajärvi", literally "sausage lake".

[@Designotherwise]

This was awesome !

[@pampeii_]

I studied watershed and river systems as part of my degree at a premiere university but I never learned this detail so I'm subscribed

[@ScienceCastRic]

Für alle deutschsprachigen Genossen die kein Wort Englisch können hier nochmal zusammengefasst: Ein Altwasser ist ein ehemaliger Flussarm, der keine Verbindung mehr zum Hauptstrom hat und dadurch zum Stillgewässer geworden ist. Der Altarm (an einem Ende vom Hauptstrom abgetrennt) stellt eine Vorstufe des Altwassers dar. Um zu verstehen wie Altwasser entstehen, müssen wir verstehen, wie ein Fluss Kurven bildet. Alles was es dafür braucht ist ein Fluss, eine Beeinträchtigung und Zeit. Die Beeinträchtigung kann bspw. ein Otter sein, der den Eingang zu seinem Bau unter Wasser in einem Fluss gebaut hat. Der vorderste Teil des Eingangs beginnt mit der Zeit zu bröckeln. Die Erosion wird immer stärker und stärker. Immer mehr Wasser strömt mit immer größer werdender Geschwindigkeit in die Erosion. Das Wasser wird von dieser Erosion abgelenkt und bildet eine Kurve. Die Kurven werden immer spitzer. Irgendwann treffen sich zwei Kurven desselben Flusses an einer Stelle. Das Wasser nimmt den kürzeren Weg und folgt dem neu entstandenen Flussabschnitt. Übrig bleibt das Altwasser.

[@tinylol]

I learn more from KZbin than school. Is that a problem?

[@marklewis4793]

Tiny teacupZ as long as it is'nt your only source of information,youtube can be a bullshit bank,

[@artv.9989]

Check out Khan Academy here on youtube, it teaches a whole bunch of subjects and explains them very well

[@0623kaboom]

only when the inforation you are getting is actually wrong .. like in this video ... Victor Schauberger ... gets it right

[@blakestartsev1239]

nah me too

[@tinybabybread]

Yes, it's a problem. It means you aren't paying attention in school.

[@Anyaforger369]

That was very knowledgeable Your voice is calm and soothing btw I love it ❤️❤️

[@HiroTaniguchi2]

I never imagined a mouse family could cause this kind of longitudinal impact on the earth.

[@ladapaburk]

Nobody: 6 million people: Hmmm, i n t e r e s t i n g

[@CHAOZmaster1]

What the hell's an oxbow? Are out bovine friends fashioning weaponry? Someone should tell me, do I need to buy a shield?

[@MrPaw45]

Yes you do and we all need to eat more beef to reduce their numbers

[@thebestthinginthecurrentsi4727]

i thank you for existing i love you

[@nushi805]

This is a beautiful and concise video loved absolutely everything, thank you so much!

[@luisdimer4461]

ohhhh que final incrivel!!

[@jadesmp4]

was re-studying my 7th grade geography and had some difficulty in this topic,this video just cleared up all my questions. thank you! (i regret not studying harder in 7th grade brooo this is karma)

[@n16161]

This question has the same answer as the question: “Why is the path to the hole on a putting green not always a straight line?”

[@AnimMusicTM]

1 rat family = a large curving river?.... wtf?

[@Frederickthegreat425]

Anim MusicTM and a lot, lot of time, centuries

[@AnimMusicTM]

@@Frederickthegreat425 lol

[@tomclark7023]

I was just yesterday chastised for being critical of a video not explaining this very dynamic. They started with a curved river and showed how it would straighten out WITHOUT explaining how erosion made it curve to begin with. Thanks for a very informative video!

[@hlibushok]

I'm not an Australian, but from now on I will say "billabong" because it sounds funny.

[@seemagupta155]

*The dsilikes are from those who still consider that the Earth is flat*

[@FootLettuce]

And those who is sad because of the death of the muskrat

[@playstationgaming2758]

@@FootLettuce i am a flat earther ask me anything

[@seulgi1211]

I actually learned a lot from this 2 minute video

[@seulgi1211]

Almost 3 minutes.

[@Mentos863]

1:08 THIS IS NOT A RIVER, THIS IS A SEA

[@leonas3840]

Wow .. That was a good question and amazing explanation ..

[@eddieflorio535]

2:22 my favorite way to say "Oxbow lake" is 💀 aka the one to the right of the bottom left.

[@fibonacci5614]

"Starorzecze" to piękne słowo.

[@Ascertivus]

1:57 A Mandelbrot sequence!! 😲😄

[@pompkin2336]

We watched this in school and It got recommended to me just now

[@お座敷インコ]

いきなりお薦めに出てきたｗ 字幕付きで見たけど、なるほど、川が直線で無くＳ字書いたり、三日月湖があったりする理由がすっごく解った！

[@Wattchn]

1:58 wait that looks just like our veins... does that mean there is little muskrats living in our veins oh no

[@CHARL1E]

That is the most obvious thing that surprisingly little people consider. It's dependant on land forms as well

[@cheatcharoninc172]

Those damn squirrels!

[@Snuwman]

I’m sure I’m not the only one who got this recommended

[@io42069]

I see a disturbance in the force makes the curve

[@MikeHermo]

3 minutes to get learnt on rivers! Not bad in my books :)

[@energyflowswhereattentiongoes]

lmao thanks for showing earth in that last pic

[@tsumikiminiwa4603]

1:52 About six times the width... ... would it happen to be approximately 2 times pi?

[@_redniel_]

And it's also the circumference divided by the radius 6.283185...

[@NS-rm7df]

When I was just a little guy I asked my grandfather why the Nueces River was so curvy. He told me that it was dug by a family of lazy men who just dug from shade tree to shade tree. Now I doubt grandpa's complete honesty.

[@RedGallardo]

So... if you're a beaver, you better build your home on the short curve of the river bend. Otherwise Darth Wader destroys it with his force.

[@tomsmith5025]

very helpful, cheers

[@yoyoman_blue6485]

This is such a good video.. its not the first time I watch it..

[@benedictvogelheim6880]

Cause they like it funky

[@JJOSEMORALES]

In Aragon, Spain an oxbow lake is called GALACHO hahaha.

[@hanoman78]

1:12 oh nooo.. Poor badger..

[@thebarbarik3118]

I am a martian and I can confirm we call them uruzdruva

[@Morussian]

I switched from the video, where it was explained on the example of a laboratory stand, why rivers are straightened. Now I have a cognitive dissonance.

[@Staeve64]

Video: why do rivers curve? Thumbnail: casual dark Vader

[@kemaichijou8999]

Good things they curve that's why we got more fresh water for crops and for drinking, imagine if water just go straight that will be disadvantage to us