The quantity of water in a stream that passes a given point in a period of time The area of active erosion on the outside of a meander.Ī short channel segment created when a river erodes through the narrow neck of land between meanders.Īn accumulation of sediment formed where a stream enters a lake or an ocean.Ī stream system that resembles the pattern of a branching tree. The total amount of sediment a stream is able to transport.Ī measure of the largest particle a stream can transport a factor dependent on velocity.
Sediment moved along the bottom of a stream by moving water.Ī stream consisting of numerous intertwining channels. The level below which a stream cannot erode. Unconsolidated sediment deposited by a stream.Ī stream that continued to downcut and maintain its original course as an area along its course was uplifted by faulting or folding.Ī poorly drained area on a floodplain resulting when natural levees are present.Ĭommon term for sand and gravel deposits in a stream channel. The painter Yang Liu, for example, has incorporated smooth versions of the traditional Greek Key (also called Sona drawing, Sand drawing, and Kolam) in many of her paintings.A fan-shaped deposit of sediment formed when a stream’s slope is abruptly reduced. Meanders and their generalizations are used with increasing frequency in various domains of contemporary art. A meander motif also appears in prehistoric Mayan design motifs in the western hemisphere, centuries before any European contacts. 202 BC) by way of trade with the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. 1000 BC -600 BC), frequently there is speculation that meanders of Greek origin may have come to China during the time of the Han Dynasty (c. Although space-filling curves have a long history in China in motifs more than 2,000 years earlier, extending back to Zhukaigou Culture (c. 1045 BC), and many traditional buildings in and around China still bear geometric designs almost identical to meanders. The meander is a fundamental design motif in regions far from a Hellenic orbit: labyrinthine meanders ("thunder" pattern ) appear in bands and as infill on Shang bronzes (c. The design is common to the present-day in classicizing architecture, and is adopted frequently as a decorative motif for borders for many modern printed materials. In ancient Greece they appear in many architectural friezes, and in bands on the pottery of ancient Greece from the Geometric Period onward. Meanders are common decorative elements in Greek and Roman art. On another hand, as Karl Kerenyi pointed out, "the meander is the figure of a labyrinth in linear form". On one hand, the name "meander" recalls the twisting and turning path of the Maeander River in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) that is typical of river pathways. Usually the term is used for motifs with straight lines and right angles and the many versions with rounded shapes are called running scrolls or, following the etymological origin of the term, may be identified as water wave motifs. Such a design also may be called the Greek fret or Greek key design, although these terms are modern designations even though the decorative motif appears thousands of years before that culture, thousands of miles away from Greece, and among cultures that are continents away from it.
Among some Italians, these patterns are known as "Greek Lines". Meander motif in the streets of Rhodes (Greece), in pavement made from beach stonesĪ meander or meandros ( Greek: Μαίανδρος) is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif.
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