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Oxbows and meanders

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When the landscape flattens out rivers become even more crooked.

There is a saying that following the path of least resistance makes men and rivers crooked.

It becomes truly present where a river's role turns from an incising one to one where the rivers primary preoccupation is with transporting, depositing and rearranging silt.

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