oxbow

• “Mine were caught in oxbow lakes and meander scars in southwest Alabama.”

  has anyone ever caught a bowfin or a snakehead? if so where and how big?

• “The Chicago Tribune called the oxbow an “outrage” perpetrated by “a set of unprincipled swindlers” intent on “building the road at the largest possible expense to the Government and the least possible expense to themselves.””

  Simon & Schuster: Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

• “Over time (from decades to millennia) these river courses meander across the floodplain, resulting in ever-changing geomorphology and heterogeneous landscape with a diversity of elements such as oxbow lakes, levees, meander swales, and point bars.”

  Iquitos varzea

• “Over time (decades to centuries) the river course meanders across the floodplain making the várzea an ever-changing and heterogeneous landscape with a diversity of fluvial elements such as oxbow lakes, levees, meander swails, and point bars.”

  Monte Alegre varzea

• “Over time (decades to centuries), the river course meanders across the floodplain making the várzea an ever-changing and heterogeneous landscape with a diversity of fluvial elements such as oxbow lakes, levees, meander swales, and point bars.”

  Purus varzea

• “To date, the problem with Anne Hathaway has been that while she does indeed look beautifully luminescent on screen, she has so far been shunted into a kind of oxbow lake of dreary roles: sweet, dribbly characters who must find their inner fire if they are to find true love.”

  The First Post: Latest

• “Fig. 11), when they have attained what is called the "oxbow" form, it often happens that the stream breaks through the isthmus which connects one of the peninsulas with the mainland.”

  Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography

• “Although this was a landscape of vast kinetic energy through the movement of water, there were also some wonderful moments of stillness: the huge veteran oaks at Atcham poised darkly in an oxbow lake, their massive root buttresses under water; the flock of mute swans, with one black swan in their midst, grazing the glimmering edges of flooded fields at Cound.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Wenlock Edge

• “Nevertheless, faint trails took us to a curving oxbow.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fire The Sky

• “Matabililand and the meaning of terminal moraine, oxbow lakes and wave-cut platforms, I was actually staring out of the window and listening to the mastodons calling to one another across the prehistoric landscape.”

  Jasper Fforde discusses Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just

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