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  2. Oxbow lake - Wikipedia

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    This picture of the Nowitna River in Alaska shows two oxbow lakes – a short one at the bottom of the picture and a longer, more curved one at the middle-right. The picture also shows that a third oxbow lake is probably in the making: the isthmus or bank in the centre of the most prominent meander is very narrow – much narrower than the width of the river; eventually, the two sections of ...

  3. Billabong - Wikipedia

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    It is usually an oxbow lake caused by a change in course of a river or creek, but other types of small lakes, ponds or waterholes are also called billabongs. The term is likely borrowed from Wiradjuri, an Aboriginal Australian language of New South Wales.

  4. Watering hole - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] In Australia, the term "billabong", often defined as a type of oxbow lake (an isolated crescentic pond left behind after a river loop is cut off when the river channel changes course), [4] is also used to refer to other types of waterholes.

  5. Glossary of geology - Wikipedia

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    Compare with the hypothetical and non-existing planar trigonal metasilicate SiO 2− 3 anion imagined from the analogy to the carbonate, CO 2− 3, anion. oxbow lake A crescent-shaped lake found within a floodplain or fluvial terrace created by the cut-off and abandonment of an active meander within a river or stream channel.

  6. Riverscape - Wikipedia

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    A riverscape [1] (also called river landscape) [2] comprises the features of the landscape which can be found on and along a river. Most features of riverscapes include natural landforms (such as meanders and oxbow lakes) but they can also include artificial landforms (such as man-made levees and river groynes). Riverscapes can be divided into ...

  7. Category:Oxbow lakes of the United States - Wikipedia

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  8. Meander scar - Wikipedia

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    Meander scars, oxbow lakes and abandoned meanders in the broad flood plain of the Rio Negro, Argentina. 2010 astronaut photo from ISS. A meander scar, occasionally meander scarp, [1] is a geological feature formed by the remnants of a meandering water channel. They are characterized by "a crescentic cut in a bluff or valley wall, produced by ...

  9. Category:Oxbow lakes - Wikipedia

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