Boring Geography For Sleep | How River Meandering CREATED The Okavango Panhandle and more
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Boring Geography For Sleep | How River Meandering CREATED The Okavango Panhandle and more
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Drift off with some gently boring geography as we trace how river meandering carved the Okavango Panhandle, shaping one of Africa’s most fascinating wetland landscapes. In classic Sleepless Geographer style, we keep it slow, calm, and quietly detailed, perfect for sleep, relaxation, or background listening.
You will learn how shifting channels, sediment deposition, erosion, and floodplain dynamics can guide a river’s path over time, building the curves, cutoffs, and long corridors that define places like the Okavango Delta. Along the way, we explore more sleepy examples of meandering rivers, oxbow lakes, and the forces that sculpt Earth’s surface, all explained in a soothing, easy to follow way.
📚 Chapters:
0:00:00 Night Arrival at the Panhandle
0:12:55 How a River Learns to Bend
0:25:51 Oxbow Lakes and Abandoned Curves
0:38:47 The Okavango’s Strange Promise: A Delta Without the Sea
0:51:43 Why the Panhandle Exists
1:04:39 Sand, Silt, and the Soft Architecture of Water
1:17:35 Where the Water Goes: Sun, Sand, and Sky
1:30:30 A Slow Calendar of Flood and Dry
1:43:26 Other Gentle Meanders: Rivers That Draw While They Move
1:56:22 Quiet Return: Water Moving in the Dark