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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 ...
Horton Creek is a tributary of Oxbow Creek in Susquehanna County and Wyoming County, in Pennsylvania, in the United States.It is approximately 3.3 miles (5.3 km) long and flows through Springville Township in Susquehanna County and Lemon Township and Nicholson Township in Wyoming County. [1]
The Oxbow Complex is a Late Archaic period complex situated in the Northern Great Plains [1] that lasted from about 5200 to 3800 BP. [2] Their points are concave, and are designed for atlatls. They hunted bison, elk, geese, and bear. [1] The complex was defined by archaeologists Boyd Wettlaufer and William Mayer-Oakes in 1960. The Oxbow complex ...
Oxbow Inlet is a tributary of Oxbow Creek in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and flows through Lemon Township . [ 1 ] The watershed of the creek has an area of 1.79 square miles (4.6 km 2 ).
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 ...
The elevation near the mouth of Oxbow Creek is 650 feet (200 m) above sea level. [4] The elevation of the creek's source is between 1,040 and 1,060 feet (317 and 323 m) above sea level. [1] The surficial geology near the mouth of Oxbow Creek mainly consists of alluvium.
Two oxbow lakes – a short one at the bottom of the picture and a longer, more curved one at the middle-right. The most common type of fluvial lake is a crescent-shaped lake called an oxbow lake due to the distinctive curved shape. They can form in river valleys as a result of meandering.
It is the largest oxbow lake in North America, as well as the largest natural lake in Arkansas. [2] The name Chicot, French for "stumpy," refers to the many cypress stumps and trees along the lake banks. [3] The lake is approximately 0.75 miles (1.21 km) wide and 21–22 miles (34–35 km) long from end to end. [4]