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Strahler Stream Order
In 1952 Arthur Newell Strahler (1918 - 2002), a professor of geoscience at Columbia, published an influential article entitled "Hypsometric (Area-Altitude) Analysis of Erosional Topography" in...
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Sinuosity Index
One of the ways earth scientists classify rivers and streams is by their degree of deviation from a straight line. This metric is called sinuosity index or sinuosity coefficient. It is a simple...
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Main Stem
The main stem of a river is the principal channel from source to mouth, the channel where movement downstream causes the Strahler stream order number to increase by increments of one. If a river has...
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Streamflow
Streamflow, aka discharge, aka channel runoff, is the volume of water in a stream flowing past a point in a specified period of time. The international standard unit of measure for streamflow is cubic...
View ArticleTest #9 River Sidon
Compiling everything we have learned about river Sidon from the text and from the geomorphology of earth's rivers, we believe river Sidon will show these 23 characteristics identified below as 1 to...
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Test #10 Crossing Sidon
Seven passages in the text use a variant of the word "cross" to describe movement over Sidon. The word "ford" is not attested. All passages are in the book of Alma and all describe large groups in a...
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Hill Riplah
I appreciate Ryan Williams' insights that sparked the research behind this article. Ryan served his mission in Guatemala and is exceptionally well-traveled in and well-informed about the region.I have...
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Test #11 The Big Picture
We previously published ten tests based on disprovable criteria that we believe any viable Book of Mormon New World correlation will pass. The ten articles are:Test #1 Ups and DownsTest #2 One Half of...
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Geology of the Book of Mormon
Tyler Livingston, recently named President of Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum, showed me a new book a few days ago. I immediately purchased a copy, read it, and wrote a favorable review on Amazon....
View ArticleA Book of Mormon Trifecta
If the Book of Mormon geography problem is solved in this generation as I believe it will be, these three resources will prove pivotal:The 2009 Yale edition of the text edited by Royal Skousen. Based...
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Top 10 LDS Intellectuals (1969)
In 1969, four years after founding the Mormon History Association and three years before becoming Church Historian succeeding Howard W. Hunter, Leonard J. Arrington surveyed notables and compiled a...
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Uto-Aztecan
BMAF has just posted a very important new article by Brian D. Stubbs, a linguist on the faculty of Utah State University, San Juan (Blanding) Campus. Click on this link to read the article. Stubbs is...
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Kaqchikel Chronicles
I am indebted to Mayaphile Ryan Williams for information that led to this research.Kaqchikel Chronicles Published by UT AustinKaqchikel Chronicles: The Definitive Edition, with translation and exegesis...
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Driven Snow
I am indebted to Ted Stoddard who provided the information that led to this research. His excellent article entitled "The Whiteness of the Driven Snow: An Evaluation of the Word 'Snow' in the Book of...
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Rabinal Achi
In 2008 I took family members to St. Peter Stiftskeller Restaurant in Salzburg. Housed in a cave, the establishment claims to be the oldest restaurant in Central Europe. We enjoyed a unique ambiance...
View ArticleEnglish in the Book of Mormon
On Saturday, March 14, 2015 I attended the conference "Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon" at BYU. Co-sponsored by Interpreter Foundation and BYU Studies, the...
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Quichean Directionality
Accurate correlation of the Book of Mormon with the Mesoamerican map requires interpretation of the words "north, south, east and west." In order to justify his geography, John L.Sorenson had to skew...
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Quichean Distance Measurement
The Nephites in the New World employed a unit of distance measure they called one day's journey. Examples of this usage include:Mosiah 23:3 Alma1 and his converts left the city of Nephi and environs,...
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Titulo de Totonicapan
Totonicapan is a K'iche' speaking town in the western highlands of Guatemala. The Yax clan is its leading lineage. The Title of Totonicapan, composed in K'iche' using Latin script in 1554, was copied...
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Iconographic Corroboration of Quichean Texts
Many significant inter textual dependencies exist between precontact Quichean texts such as Popol Vuh, Title of Totonicapan, Kaqchikel Chronicles, and Rabinal Achi. The parallels are so precise and...
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