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oxbow lake
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oxbow lake

Small lake located in a former meander loop of a river or stream channel. It is generally formed as a river cuts through a meander neck to shorten its course, blocks off the old channel, and then migrates away from the lake. If only one loop is cut off, the lake is crescent-shaped; if more than one loop is cut off, the lake is serpentine (winding). Eventually, oxbow lakes silt up to form marshes and finally meander scars.

oxbow lake [′äks‚bō ¦lāk]
(hydrology)
The crescent-shaped body of water located alongside a stream in an abandoned oxbow after a neck cutoff is formed and the ends of the original bends are silted up. Also known as crescentic lake; cutoff lake; horseshoe lake; loop lake; moat; mortlake; oxbow.
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Ponds and wet grassland will be created and some degraded mires and ox-bow lakes will be restored.
Bid to restore our wetland habitat by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Byline: DEREK McGOVERN IT'S PRETTY well established that tennis is about as straight as an ox-bow lake, even without the claims of Andy Murray yesterday, but it's still hard to accept the comments of former British No.
RESULT!: ARVIND MAKES ODD RACKET; IN ASSOCIATION WITH betfair.com by The Mirror (London, England)
Byline: DEREK McGOVERN IT'S PRETTY well established that tennis is about as straight as an ox-bow lake, even without the claims of Andy Murray yesterday, but it's still hard to accept the comments of former British No.
RESULT!: ARVIN MAKES ODD RACKET; IN ASSOCIATION WITH betfair.com by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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