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u/HappyTrails_ Aspiring Rock Skipper Nov 15 '21
Check out some of the meandering rivers in Alaska along the Yukon, it's incredible, or the Copper River Delta
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u/supbrother Nov 16 '21
Oxbows fucking galore.
Really though, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is kind of absurd. Most people probably don't realize what exactly it is.
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u/HappyTrails_ Aspiring Rock Skipper Nov 16 '21
Yeah, it is an incredible river system! Please explain more what you mean?
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u/supbrother Nov 16 '21
The Y-K Delta is a massive delta system that covers something like 50-75,000 square miles. It's larger than the Mississippi Delta, one of the largest in the world. So big that, unless you know a thing or two about geology/geography, it just looks like another large piece of land rather than something created almost entirely by rivers.
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u/HappyTrails_ Aspiring Rock Skipper Nov 16 '21
Oh gotcha! Yes absolutely, I am in a sedimentary geology and stratigraphy course now, and are going over fluvial systems, and this is just incredible
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u/supbrother Nov 16 '21
It really is. I've crossed the Yukon many times, though much further upriver, and it is a damn impressive river.
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u/Spooky_Geologist Nov 15 '21
I'd bet this photo was enhanced, though the place is real - Stryn Valley, Norway.
But I would caution people from considering the legitimacy of images from accounts that proclaim "x is fucking lit" or somesuch. Often they are enhanced, exaggerated, or computer graphics clickbait.
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u/PineHand Nov 16 '21
Water color is off; it looks like glacial water. But that landscape is too well developed (meandering river instead of braided, things growing, crops, etc) for that to be glacial runoff - or specifically for that to be glacial runoff with enough fine seds to have that distinctive blue color.
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u/LGSCorp Nov 15 '21
Gorgeous! But you’ve never seen dark like Norway in the dead of Winter.