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The patient floor a river redecorates daily and abandons whenever it changes its mind.
means The channel or ground over which a river flows, the depression in the earth that holds and shapes its course.
from A plain compound of two old Germanic words: 'river,' which came into English from Old French 'riviere,' itself from Latin 'riparius' (of the bank), and 'bed,' from Old English 'bedd' — the same word for a sleeping place, a garden plot, or the bottom on which anything rests. The riverbed is literally where the water lies down.
- ghost rivers
- Dry beds reveal ancient channels long after water vanishes
- gold magnet
- Heavy nuggets settle into bedrock cracks called pay streaks
- shifting address
- Rivers physically wander, abandoning beds over centuries
- sorted by force
- Boulders upstream, silt downstream, ranked by current strength
yellow river china — world's second-longest river, flows 3,395 km through northern china and shifts its course dramatically
wadi rum jordan — massive red sandstone valley with seasonal riverbeds in southern jordan, 720 sq km protected area
grand canyon colorado river — 1.6 km deep gorge carved by the colorado river over 6 million years in arizona