What is an abandoned cutoff meander loop? It is An Oxbow lake.
What is an abandoned cutoff meander loop? It is An Oxbow lake.
The channel lengthens and migrates towrad the cutbank.
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.
the answer is meander
A river!
its called a meander
It's an Ox-bow.
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its called a meander
meander
its called a meander
oxbow or a Mortlake