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When a meander connects what is the little piece of river left called?
It is called an ox-bow lake, as it is in the shape of an bow. It is called an ox-bow lake, as it is in the shape of an bow.
What is it called when a meander is cutoff from the main flow of a river?
oxbow or a Mortlake
Has the Yangtze River got an ox bow lake?
no
Type of lake formed when a large meander is by passed?
ox-bow lake
What kind of lake forms from an abandoned bend?
Ox-bow
What is the name of the ox-bow lake in Britain?
Yes there are a river with oxbow lakes in Europe.
Three landforms created by erosion?
waterfall, ox bow lake, meander
Crescent shaped lake formed by river meander?
== == That is and can be called either a lake or a reservoir. I think the required answer is an Oxbow lake. Where erosion cuts through a meander, effectively shortening the river, the lake formed by the old bend remains: Oxbow.
What is The ox bow lake?
an ox bow lake is a formation, not a single entertity. it occurs when a river meanders (horozontal erosion) and becomes so great that when the water seeks the fastest route- it cuts across the meander, naturally straightening the river chanel out again, and leaving a horse shoe shaped lake left on its own, which ususally matures into a lagoon or something. there is no 'the ox bow lake' there are 'ox bow lakes' doofus.
Hat is part of a sea or lake which reaches into the land along the shore?
Ox bow lake, or an inland sea?
Is there an ox-bow lake on the river nile?
Yes there is in Sudan Yes there is in Sudan
How does meander neck cutoff form an oxbow lake?
At times, particularly during floods, a river may form a meander cutoff, a new, shorter channel across the narrow neck od a meander. The old meander may be abandoned as sediment separates out from the new, shorter channel. The cutoff meander becomes a cresent-shaped ox-bow lake. With time, an ox-bow lake may be filled with sediment and vegitation.
