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god damn yellow river go home you are drunk

The yellow river has a LOT of sediment in it from the Loess plateau (mostly from soil erosion). It’s decreased in recent years, but it has so much sediment that it raises the level of the riverbed constantly. The yellow river also deposits so much sediment that it has dramatically changed the coastline of the Bohai sea over the past few thousand years (VERY fast on the geologic timescale).

Anyways the riverbed is constantly rising. Water will go the path of least resistance. When the riverbed gets higher (and closer to/higher than other areas), it gets very unstable. Add in a little normal fluctuations in water level and rainfall, and then suddenly there’s a better path. And the water follows the new lowest point. Think of that tiktok(?) of those people digging a little trench on a beach for a river, which quickly gets a LOT bigger as the water diverts to that path. That’s similar what’s happening with the river choosing the path of least resistance.

The higher upstream the instability occurs, the further the course is likely to change. Not to mention, the yellow river exits the mountains onto the low-lying North China Plain and has to go either north to the Bohai Sea or South to the Yellow Sea because Shandong is right in the way

Just like. There is so much fucking sediment in this river it’s insane.

Sources you can look at for more info:

#100DaysofProductivity — Day 2

so… it’s been a while. (looks around embarrassed)

life got extremely stressful and things happened, but i have been working behind the scenes! i completed a research stay in south korea (first time ever flying long-haul AND living abroad alone! yay me!), participated in some conferences and made some noticeable progress on my phd.

right now it’s that time of a phd where you start writing and suddenly everything you’ve ever read comes to mind and you have to organise a million sources for one tiny paragraph. but im good, this is what i love to do! and this is also why i’ve decided to come back to the 100daysofproductivity thingy. i REALLY need to lock tf in.

how have you been? any interesting developments this year?

26.02.26 ✨ i'm convinced my master's thesis advisor is an actual angel. how did i get so lucky.

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