Subject: aftmuz on google earth<br/>
Date: Sep 10, 2006 @ 02:37<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@yahoo.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-303012894">groundhog day yet again <br/>
at the next stop on the way down the amu darya<br/>
where the thalweg again survives from the afsu treaty <br/>
to carry in this case both aftm & afuz<br/>
& the topo again shows a dry intersoviet convergent<br/>
boundary<br/>
which is tmuz in this case but again very probably<br/>
undemarcated<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/data/Centr._Asia/Topo%20maps_500k/J-42-V.jpg">http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/data/Centr._Asia/Topo%20maps_500k/J-42-V.jpg</a><br/>
<br/>
tmuz has at least been officially delimited tho<br/>
presumably in most places along the inherited lines<br/>
shown on the topo<br/>
<br/>
but aftmuz includes a trick of nature & a bonus puzzle<br/>
besides<br/>
<br/>
for tho it may take a while to realize when comparing<br/>
the satpic & topo<br/>
ultimately it is clear that the river has actually<br/>
relocated its entire bed quite some distance to the<br/>
south since soviet times<br/>
& thus well beyond the end of the preexisting tmuz<br/>
boundary<br/>
<br/>
& this odd fact compounds the task of spotting it in<br/>
the satpic <br/>
into also extending it southward to its logical &<br/>
necessary conclusion<br/>
after all these years of following the retreating<br/>
river & thalweg<br/>
<br/>
for just as aftm & afuz must have remained with the<br/>
thalweg on its sideways migration to the south<br/>
so the end of tmuz would have had to stretch somehow<br/>
so as to stay in communication with them & this mobile<br/>
tripoint<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& btw <br/>
there is no evidence that an avulsion is treated any<br/>
differently than accretion on any of the afghan<br/>
borders<br/>
<br/>
that is<br/>
the borders around here appear to always move with the<br/>
thalwegs<br/>
even if the changes are abrupt<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
the peculiar difficulty right here tho <br/>
as well as a useful clue<br/>
is that the terminal segment of tmuz as shown on the<br/>
topo is clearly not a geodetic line but rather appears<br/>
to follow some natural irregularly curvilinear feature<br/>
which can be spotted in the satpic<br/>
& indeed can be followed from the point where tmuz<br/>
crosses the river road down to the edge of the dry<br/>
former river bed <br/>
at least <br/>
if not beyond<br/>
<br/>
however <br/>
since this boundary sector is evidently not geodetic<br/>
but natural<br/>
it has no established intermonumental sight line or<br/>
known bearing along which to simply keep prolonging<br/>
itself<br/>
<br/>
so it is my belief & guess that it must simply have<br/>
chased after the thalweg by moving at right angles to<br/>
the river from its position in the old bed to a<br/>
corresponding position in the new one<br/>
<br/>
& in view of all that<br/>
i have placed my aftmuz location guess <br/>
again at the little red square at the end of the<br/>
measurement line on the attachment<br/>
pretty much due douth of the former tripoint position<br/>
on the topo<br/>
<br/>
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