As the Zambezi leaves the wide floodplain of the sandy Kalahari, it enters a narrow basalt channel as fast-moving whitewater rapids. Ngonye Falls, Zambia, marks a remote stretch of the Zambezi River where the floodplain is extremely narrow. These rivers usually have a steep stream gradient-a very deep, fast-moving channel. In fact, some rivers, or parts of rivers, seem to have no floodplain at all. Some rivers have very narrow floodplains. The Barotse floodplain includes the sandy Kalahari basin, which is waterlogged during the rainy season and an extension of the nearby Kalahari Desert during the dry season. The Barotse floodplain of the Zambezi River, for example, is a vast wetland stretching thousands of kilometers through Angola, Zambia, and Botswana. Some floodplains are extraordinarily wide. The flood fringe of the seasonal Todd River extends the floodplain to 445 square kilometers (170 square miles). Bluff lines, also called valley walls, mark the area where the valley floor begins to rise into bluffs. The flood fringe extends from the outer banks of the floodway to the bluff lines of a river valley. The floodway of the Todd River in Australia’s Northern Territory, for instance, is an ephemeral stream, meaning its channel can be dry for months at a time.īeyond the floodway is the flood fringe. Floodways can sometimes be seasonal, meaning the channel is dry for part of the year. The first is the main channel of the river itself, called the floodway. It stretches from the banks of the river to the outer edges of the valley.Ī floodplain consists of two parts. In a flash he thought of Agnes and of her hopes, and her high number, and wondered whether she had gone to Meander to file.A floodplain (or floodplain) is a generally flat area of land next to a river or stream.Mong knew that the Meander stage would leave for Comanche at eight in the morning, or two hours before the drawing began.The beat of hoofs around the sharp turn in the road where it led out into the valley in which Meander lay, fell sharp and sudden on their ears.Three have the ends bent (at right angles) four times, making a meander form, while two make only one bend.The artist has evidently attempted to figure on this the true meander (Greek fret), but has failed.Strong and Horace were asleep in their bunks, for they were to take the early stage for Meander in the morning.A sound of scrambling hoofs laboring up the sharp hill from the direction of Meander came to him suddenly, startling him out of his reflections.With figures of birds on the neck and a tolerably well executed true meander or Greek fret around the body.They struck off down the Meander stage-road, which ran for the greater part of its way through the lands awaiting the disposition of chance.We crossed into Nebraska about noon and continued to meander until late in the afternoon when we came upon our first giveaway road sign.
Detail of Greek vase, Sphynx with spiral scrolls, two meander Swastikas (right).Detail of Greek vase with ram, meander Swastika (left), circles, dots, and crosses.Fragment of Greek vase with figures of animals, two meander Swastikas, and Greek fret.In no instance do we find the meander or Greek fret on these, or in fact any other Zuni vessels.Neck with meander as in the preceding a slender vine, well made, around the body.This side of the pyramids he saw the Nile meander among palm groves and tilled fields.
The hotel at Meander had not at that day come to such modern contrivances as telephones and baths.Over the white there is a band 4 or 5 inches wide, consisting of a meander done in red.He thinks that it may have been the origin of the Greek fret or meander pattern.Biscuit-shaped, with broad meander band externally no decoration internally.Attention is called especially to the leaves and to the simple meander in the stripes.
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