“I’m used to rivers that know what they’re doing.”

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

This incredible image clearly demonstrates the fluvial processes that have creating and this and will continue to reshape this landscape.  Meander scars, oxbow lakes, channel cutoffs, floodplains and point bars are all here in this gorgeous teaching image.

Tags:  physical, fluvial,geomorphology, erosion, landscape.

Even though Chris Hadfield’s time on the space station is over, his twitter stream can still be a great source of images displaying the physical and human landscapes (and if you needed any more evidence that he’s the coolest astronaut ever, watch his parting video singing David Bowie’s Space Oddity).

See on twitter.com

MeanderStream