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penguins

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on: Jul 15, 2018

How do oxbow lakes form? What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What is/are the source(s) of dissolved load in most streams? What will be an ideal response?

Jadwiga9

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Reply #1 on: Jul 15, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Oxbow lakes are cutoff meanders from a stream that has become very sinuous.

Answer to Question 2

The dissolution of streambed and banks, sheet flow, and groundwater flow into the stream.

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