stackyFACTSRivers are incredibly lazy and always looking for a shortcut. Over many years, a river's meandering loop can become so extreme that the water just cuts straight across the neck of the loop, abandoning the old bend completely. The leftover, crescent-shaped body of water is an oxbow lake, a literal monument to geographical rejection.
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