Lee Hays
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Do you have any education in the sciences? Let's start off with how streams erode the landscape. Streams have three general "ages". The first, the youthful stage is river that is moving fairly rapidly. These are found in areas of high relief, in other words steep slopes. The river will cut a fairly straight line. Fast flow in a river means straight lines. As the slope lessens and the stream will enter its mature stage. U shaped valleys with minimal turning. As the slope lessens even more and the river slows it will form meanders. Meanders are the "old age" of streams. The river slowly erodes the landscape with oxbows forming and sometimes cutting themselves off.
https://sswm.info/sites/default/files/reference_attachments/IMMOR 2006 Classification Rivers.pdf
If one has a steep gradient and a high load of sediment one can get braided streams, those can form in rapidly moving water, but they have no true meanders. Often creationists mistake one for the other but one can see the difference. Braided stream:
Meander:
Sometimes a meander is established and either sea level drops or the land is raised. Here is a tributary to the Colorado that flood believers cannot explain:
That could not have formed in a flood and I will be happy to go over with you why that is the case.
I didn’t know you need an education in sciences to post “your thoughts” here...
Sorry dude - won’t happen again !