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What's the reasoning behind why this should be the case? Something to do with the curvature of the Earth?
by IsaacL 11y ago
What's the reasoning behind why this should be the case? Something to do with the curvature of the Earth?
- mistercow 11y agoThere's a link to a video that explains it. tl;dw: when rivers are very sinuous, the kinks turn into oxbow lakes and separate from the river, so that limits how sinuous they can get. On the other hand, rivers' bends are constantly amplified by erosion. Researchers modeling these phenomena showed that under certain assumptions, these forces are in equilibrium at a sinuosity of ᴨ.