| 词汇 | oxbow-lake |
| 释义 | oxbow lake noun[ C ] geography specializeduk /ˌɒks.bəʊ ˈleɪk/ us /ˌɑːks.boʊ ˈleɪk/ a curved lake that was originally a bend in a river but became separated when the river took a new, straighter course牛轭湖（当河流出现新的、更直的流向时，原有的河流弯曲处分离形成湖泊） Education Images/Universal Images Group/GettyImages Inland waters catchment area catchment management crater lake fiord fjord L, l lake Lake Baikal loch lough oasis pool reservoir ribbon lake slop stretch tank tarn the Great Lakes waterhole Examples of oxbow lakeoxbow lake Sampled trees were all on substrate with minimum ages of >400 y (and likely much older) based on topographic position and radiocarbon dates from a nearby oxbowlake. An oxbowlake is formed when a river creates a meander due to the river eroding the banks through hydraulic action and abrasion/corrasion. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, an oxbowlake forms. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Typically, cutoffs were created by digging a channel across a peninsula, leaving the bypassed bend to form an oxbowlake. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Now water is controlled from a sluice gate located at the downstream mouth of the oxbowlake. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It was on an oxbowlake that was cut off in 1979. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. About 30,000 years ago the river straightened to its present course leaving an oxbowlake. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This left an oxbowlake which later dried up, leaving deposits of silt and peat. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Sometimes the river will cut off a loop, shortening the channel and forming an oxbowlake or billabong. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Roughly 6,700 people live on the island within the oxbowlake and so some limited fishing is permitted. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This area replicates the habitat that might be found at an oxbowlake. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The next year flooding caused the river to jump its banks and shorten the main stream, with the long meander becoming an oxbowlake. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This may eventually cause an oxbowlake to form. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In certain habitats, if the scar has sufficient water, or as an oxbowlake fills with sediment, these areas may become marshes or wetlands. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When deposition finally seals off the cutoff from the river channel, an oxbowlake is formed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of oxbow lake These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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