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oxbow lake
The crescent-shaped, often ephemeral body of standing water situated by the side of a stream in the abandoned channel (oxbow) of a meander after the stream formed a neck cutoff and the ends of the original bend were silted up.
- Partie du discours : noun
- Secteur d’activité/Domaine : Sciences terrestres
- Catégorie : Science du sol
- Company: Soil Science Society of America
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Créateur
- Bob Adams
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