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is called an oxbow lake for the distinctive curved shape that results from this process... an oxbow lake is called a... is an oxbow lake formed when the... The largest oxbow lake in North America... is named after the horseshoe shaped oxbow lake at the eastern tip of which the town is located...

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Songhua River, northeast China. Swirls and curves, showing paths the river once took, as well as oxbow lakes, are easily seen in this satellite photo. | | Songhua River | northeast China | meander | mainstem | river | landform | Australia | billabong | An oxbow in the making: meanders and sandbank deposition on the Nowitna River, Alaska | | meanders | Nowitna River | sea | lake | meanders | river | deposition | erosion | cut bank | convex | meander | flood | channel | secondary flow | point bars | formation of point bars | secondary flow | boundary layer | centripetal force | boundary layer | secondary flow | tropical cyclone | vortex | Bernoulli's principle | A Horseshoe or oxbow lake near Hughes, Arkansas, USA. The bulges in the border reflect changes in the course of the river; when the river shifted its course and cut off the former channel, the border did not change. | | Hughes, Arkansas | USA | Early stages of formation of coastal plain ox-bow lake. Gower Peninsula, southwest Wales | | Gower | Wales | Reelfoot Lake | Tennessee | Mississippi River | New Madrid Earthquake | 1811 | 1812 | Lake Chicot | Lake Village, Arkansas | Mississippi River | Horseshoe Lake, Arkansas | Cuckmere Haven | Sussex | England | meandering | river | physical geography | Secondary flow around river bends | Fallacy regarding formation of point bars | Categories | Fluvial landforms | Lakes | Oxbow lakes |
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