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an oxbow lake [OC]
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That looks super cool. What is an oxbow lake?
Can I direct you to this beauty of the older Internet?
An arc shaped pond left behind when a meandering river decides to take a shortcut.
It feels like this is all we ever studied in geography class, apart from learning the names of capital cities of Europe.
More or less a small pond that forms outside the curve of a river. Nat geo