Why Do Rivers Curve?

Опубликовано 19 ноября 2014, 15:21

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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: youtube.com/user/braincraftvid...
Ever Salazar: youtube.com/user/EverST88
Antoine Coeur: youtube.com/user/MinutePourLaT...

OTHER CREDITS
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Waterfalls Cascading - Courtesy Shutterstock
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Rio cauto Cuba - Public Domain Photo
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Tiger Leaping Gorge - Courtesy Shutterstock
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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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Mars Rover Curiosity - Public Domain Image
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REFERENCES
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Howard, A. D., & Knutson, T. R. (1984). Sufficient conditions for river meandering: A simulation approach. Water Resources Research, 20(11), 1659-1667. erode.evsc.virginia.edu/papers...

Leopold, L. B., & Wolman, M. G. (1960). River meanders. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 71(6), 769-793. usu.edu/jackschmidt/files/uplo...

Parker, H. (1996). River Meandering as Self-Organization Process. Science,271, 1710. f052.it/watch/927/meandering_r...

Rhoads, B. L., & Welford, M. R. (1991). Initiation of river meandering. Progress in Physical Geography, 15(2), 127-156. geog.illinois.edu/~brhoads/rho...

Schwenk, Jon. Interview. 9 July 2014.

Seminara, G. (2006). Meanders. Journal of fluid mechanics, 554, 271-297. journals.cambridge.org/action/...

Stølum, H. H. (1998). Planform geometry and dynamics of meandering rivers.Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110(11), 1485-1498. bruche.u-strasbg.fr/pages_prot...