{"id":20004,"date":"2023-11-25T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/?p=20004"},"modified":"2023-11-25T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T10:51:25","slug":"the-%f0%9f%8c%8d-is-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/the-%f0%9f%8c%8d-is-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"The \ud83c\udf0d is flat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new 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The sinuosity is the ratio between the actual length and the straight-line distance from source to mouth. Faster currents along the outside edges of a river\u2019s bends cause more erosion than along the inside edges, thus pushing the bends even farther out, and increasing the overall loopiness of the river. However, that loopiness eventually causes the river to double back on itself in places and \u201cshort-circuit\u201d, creating an ox-bow lake in the process. 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