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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sooner or later they're going to become meander scars or oxbow lakes, when the river reconnects with itself.

[–] Dabundis 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Known in Australia as Billabongs

[–] motor_spirit 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this just shed light on one of my fav song titles by an aussie group, thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

walzing mathilda jumpscare

[–] evidences 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My first thought when seeing this was future home of an ox bow lake

[–] shalafi 6 points 1 month ago

And not far future! Both bends are within a couple of trees in missing each other.

For those not on the water much, see the beach on the left of the top bow? The opposite side is where the water is deeper and faster. It'll chew through that bank and meet the other side soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy fuck that oxbow lake schematic on wikipedia looks earily like a vessicle coming of a piece of membrane

[–] hydrospanner 2 points 1 month ago

The only thing I know about vesicles is that microvesicles are gross... thanks to paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler.