Ancient Dynamics

© Matthew Word Bain

This is a broad scene for such a narrow frame, but what we see here is the intersection of currents between the James (pictured) and the Maury (left of frame). The flow from the Maury is quite nearly orthogonal to the flow of the James as it enters, and from the vantage on this bank of the James it looks almost as if the Maury’s discharge actually pushes a bit upstream in an arc before being coaxed downriver in alignment with the flow in its new home between…