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unusual facts about meander


Meander

As a waveform the meandering stream follows the down-valley axis, a straight line fitted to the curve such that the sum of all the amplitudes measured from it is zero.


Battle of Big Black River Bridge

Union Brig. Gen. Michael K. Lawler formed his 2nd Brigade, Eugene A. Carr's 14th Division, which surged out of a meander scar, across the front of the Confederate forces, through waist-deep water, and into the enemy's breastworks, held by Brig. Gen. John C. Vaughn's East Tennessee Brigade.

Battle of the Meander

Just days after the Battle of the Meander, the French army suffered a catastrophic defeat at Mount Cadmus.

Byblis

Her mother was either Tragasia, Cyanee, daughter of the river-god Meander, or Eidothea, daughter of King Eurytus of Caria.

Camerton, Cumbria

St Peter's church is located south-east of the village on a meander of the River Derwent.

Conococheague Formation

The Conococheague also forms dramatic, 100-foot cliffs along the Potomac River upstream of Shepherdstown, West Virginia (northwest of Harpers Ferry), where entrenched meanders expose mile-long sections of tilted Conococheague strata.

Esch-sur-Sûre

The town's prominent castle, and the main part of the town below, sit on a spur of a land within a sharp meander of the river.

Fort Pasir Panjang

The New Harbour was later renamed as Keppel Harbour in 1900 after Admiral Sir Henry Keppel of HMS Meander, who carried out an on-site survey to build an anchorage in the harbour in the 1880s.

Glady Fork

From the confluence the Glady Fork flows north-northeastwardly in a meandering course between Middle Mountain and Shavers Mountain in the Monongahela National Forest, through eastern Randolph County into southern Tucker County, where it joins the Dry Fork at the community of Gladwin.

Küçükmenderes River

Küçük Menderes, "Little Meander"), Cayster River or Kaystros River is located south of İzmir, Turkey.

Mendeira

Climbing Mount Mendeira gives you a superb view over the whole area, situated in a meander of the river Zêzere.

Nam Sam River

It originates from Houa peak at 2062 m near Xam Neua town, Houaphanh Province in eastern Laos and travels east to meander through Nghệ An and Thanh Hóa provinces of Vietnam.

Paperman

While searching for a "way to merge 2D and 3D" animation, Kahrs discovered Meander, "a hybrid vector/raster-based drawing and animation system that gives artists an interactive way to craft the film".

Polystrate fossil

Northeast of Donaldsonville, Louisiana, a borrow pit excavated for fill used to maintain nearby artificial levees, exposed three levels of rooted upright tree trunks stacked on top of each other lying completely buried beneath the surface of Point Houmas, a patch of floodplain lying within a meander loop of the current course of the Mississippi River.

Rakkestad

The river meanders its way along, mainly through farmland, providing excellent river fishing for pike, roach, and perch.

Stacy Levy

"Lotic Meander" is a serpentine walkway that resembles a dried riverbed, located outside the Ontario Science Centre's Great Hall.

White Clay Creek

Further south, after the confluence of Egypt Run, the creek begins to turn and meander in a narrow gorge, passing through Landenberg, formerly a mill town and the junction of the Pomeroy & Newark with the Wilmington and Western Railroad.

Wittlich Hauptbahnhof

Due to the extensive meandering of the middle Moselle, the line left the Moselle valley at Pünderich and was then built on a relatively straight route through the Wittlich valley (Wittlicher Senke) to Trier.


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