Meander

Author : Jane Alison
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781948226134

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Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison Pdf

"How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read . . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom to explore but with enough guidance to thrive." ―Maris Kreizman, Vulture A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 | A Poets & Writers Best Books for Writers As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: “For centuries there’s been one path through fiction we’re most likely to travel― one we’re actually told to follow―and that’s the dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides . . . But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collapses? Bit masculosexual, no? So many other patterns run through nature, tracing other deep motions in life. Why not draw on them, too?" W. G. Sebald’s Emigrants was the first novel to show Alison how forward momentum can be created by way of pattern, rather than the traditional arc--or, in nature, wave. Other writers of nonlinear prose considered in her “museum of specimens” include Nicholson Baker, Anne Carson, Marguerite Duras, Gabriel García Márquez, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Robison. Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. It will appeal to serious readers and writers alike.

Author : Peter Frederick Lagasse,National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Meandering rivers
ISBN : 9780309088145

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Handbook for Predicting Stream Meander Migration by Peter Frederick Lagasse,National Cooperative Highway Research Program Pdf

Author : Jeremy Seal
Publisher : Random House
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781448139224

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Meander by Jeremy Seal Pdf

The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression - an invitation Jeremy Seal is duty-bound to accept while travelling the length of it in a one-man canoe. At every twist and turn of his journey, from the Meander's source in the uplands of Central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, Seal illuminates his account with a wealth of cultural, historical and personal asides. It is a journey that takes him from Turkey's steppe interior - the stamping ground of such illustrious adventurers as Xerxes, Alexander the Great and the Crusader Kings - to the great port city of Miletus, home of the earliest Western philosophers. Along the way Seal unpicks the history of this remarkable region, but he also encounters a rich assortment of contemporary characters who reveal a rural Turkey on the cusp of change. Above all, this is the story of a river that first brought the cultures of East and West into contact - and conflict - with one another, its banks littered with the spoil of empires, the marks of war, and the detritus of recent industrialisation. At once epic, intimate and insightful, Meander is a brilliant evocation of a land between two worlds.

Author : Mickey Wangler
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781387670857

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Mick's Meander's by Mickey Wangler Pdf

This is the story of a boy that becomes a man spanning Europe to America. He followed his dream and passion to become a carpenter and build homes. This is the story of that journey.

Author : Alessandra Crosato
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1586039156

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Analysis and Modelling of River Meandering by Alessandra Crosato Pdf

This thesis examines the morphological changes of non-tidal meandering rivers at the spatial scale of several meanders. With this purpose, a physics-based mathematical model, MIANDRAS, has been developed for the simulation of the medium-term to long-term evolution of meandering rivers. Application to several real rivers shows that MIANDRAS can properly simulate both equilibrium river bed topography and planimetric changes. Three models of different complexity can be obtained by applying different degrees of simplification to the equations. These models, along with experimental tests and field data, constitute the tools for several analyses. At conditions of initiation of meandering, it is found that river bends can migrate upstream and downstream. This depends on meander wave length and width-to-depth ratio, irrespective of whether the parameters are in the subresonant or the superresonant range.

Author : Anna Karnauhova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783110533026

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Meanders by Anna Karnauhova Pdf

This unique book’s subject is meanders (connected, oriented, non-self-intersecting planar curves intersecting the horizontal line transversely) in the context of dynamical systems. By interpreting the transverse intersection points as vertices and the arches arising from these curves as directed edges, meanders are introduced from the graphtheoretical perspective. Supplementing the rigorous results, mathematical methods, constructions, and examples of meanders with a large number of insightful figures, issues such as connectivity and the number of connected components of meanders are studied in detail with the aid of collapse and multiple collapse, forks, and chambers. Moreover, the author introduces a large class of Morse meanders by utilizing the right and left one-shift maps, and presents connections to Sturm global attractors, seaweed and Frobenius Lie algebras, and the classical Yang-Baxter equation. Contents Seaweed Meanders Meanders Morse Meanders and Sturm Global Attractors Right and Left One-Shifts Connection Graphs of Type I, II, III and IV Meanders and the Temperley-Lieb Algebra Representations of Seaweed Lie Algebras CYBE and Seaweed Meanders

Author : Massimiliano Ghinassi,Luca Colombera,Nigel P. Mountney,Arnold Jan H. Reesink
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119424468

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Fluvial Meanders and Their Sedimentary Products in the Rock Record (IAS SP 48) by Massimiliano Ghinassi,Luca Colombera,Nigel P. Mountney,Arnold Jan H. Reesink Pdf

The sinuous form and peculiar evolution of meandering rivers has long captured the imagination of people. Today, meandering rivers exist in some of the most densely populated areas in the World, where they provide environmental and economic wealth and opportunities, as well as posing hazards. Through geological time, the ancestors of these modern meanders built deposits that are now host to mineral resources, groundwater, and hydrocarbons. This Special Publication illustrates the breadth of current research on meandering rivers and their deposits. The collection of research papers demonstrates the state of science on fluvial process–product relationships. The articles cover fundamental and applied studies of both modern and ancient rivers, are based on state-of-the-art technology, include complementary philosophical approaches, and span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. This book includes some of the most recent advances in the study of the morphodynamics and sedimentology of meandering rivers, and is an important resource for those who want to investigate fluvial systems and their deposits.

Author : Angela Walters
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781617455216

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Free-Motion Meandering by Angela Walters Pdf

Finishing your own quilts is easier than you think Turn the corner to free-motion success with a meandering makeover! Best-selling author Angela Walters shows you that free-motion quilting doesn't have to be scary - with a couple designs in your pocket, you can finish almost any quilt on your home machine and enjoy the process. Practice 8 meandering stitches for beginners, plus creative variations on each, with step-by-step visuals and quilted samples. Start your free-motion journey on the right foot with proven techniques to help you disguise mistakes and transition between designs with ease. • Thrive at free-motion quilting with popular teacher and best-selling author Angela Walters • Just starting out? Angela includes the basics of quilting and supplies • Troubleshoot mistakes, master the meander, and practice fluid movement between quilt stitches

Author : Giovanni Seminara ,Stefano Lanzoni ,Nicoletta Tambroni
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9791221503029

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Theoretical Morphodynamics: River Meandering by Giovanni Seminara ,Stefano Lanzoni ,Nicoletta Tambroni Pdf

This monograph discusses the mechanics of Meandering Rivers with the help of the mathematical and modeling tools built up in the previous monograph of the same Authors (monograph 1 of the present series). After introducing the reader to the ubiquitous character of meandering streams, we discuss the hydrodynamics of curved channels with fixed beds and banks. Next, we extend the analysis to account for the mobile character of the bed and show that it gives rise to the alternate sequence of riffles and pools that characterize river meanders. Allowing for the erodible character of the river banks then allows to build up a rational theory of meander formation able to explain most of the features observed in nature: meander growth, migration, skewing, multiple loops, cutoffs and meander belts.

Author : Margaret Wooster
Publisher : Excelsior Editions
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1438484682

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Meander: Making Room for Rivers by Margaret Wooster Pdf

Draws on the author's own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.

Author : James F. Daniel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Meandering rivers
ISBN : UCR:31210020751382

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Channel Movement of Meandering Indiana Streams by James F. Daniel Pdf

Author : Walter Basil Langbein,Luna Bergere Leopold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : UCR:31210020748107

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River Meanders--theory of Minimum Variance by Walter Basil Langbein,Luna Bergere Leopold Pdf

The geometry of a meander is that of a random walk whose most frequent form minimizes the sum of the squares of the changes in direction in each unit length. Changes in direction closely approximate a sine function of channel distance. Depth, velocity, and slope are adjusted so as to decrease the variance of shear and the friction factor in a meander over that in an otherwise comparable straight reach of the same river.

Author : Charles Linwood Vincent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Coast changes
ISBN : UCSD:31822009438540

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Quantification of Shoreline Meandering by Charles Linwood Vincent Pdf

Rhythmic, shoreline topography, termed shoreline meandering was investigated along Hatteras Island, North Carolina, using historical aerial photography. Two types of meanders were distinguished on the basis of form geometry. The temporal and spatial variability of meandering along the island were quantified using spectral and multivariate techniques. The data suggested that a model of the beach cycle in the nearshore zone in which the occurrence of small meanders is a function of (1) storm-current velocity and nearshore slope and (2) a post-storm balance of onshore and offshore sand transport due to the presence of topography-forced nearshore circulation explains the observed characteristics of small, rhythmic meanders. Large meanders are explained as regions of severe storm erosion caused by wave convergence over long, offshore shoals. (Author).

Author : John Tilton Hack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Meandering rivers
ISBN : ERDC:35925000384633

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Intrenched Meanders of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, Virginia by John Tilton Hack Pdf

A study of the channel of a river intrenched in hard rocks and an analysis of factors that cause it to meander.

Author : United States. General Land Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Public lands
ISBN : PSU:000014370601

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Manual of Surveying Instructions for the Surveying of the Public Lands of the United States and Private Land Claims by United States. General Land Office Pdf