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 nearbyoxbowlake.
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Anoxbowlakeis formed when a river creates a meander due to the river eroding the banks through hydraulic action and abrasion/corrasion.
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When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, anoxbowlakeforms.
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Typically, cutoffs were created by digging a channel across a peninsula, leaving the bypassed bend to form anoxbowlake.
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Now water is controlled from a sluice gate located at the downstream mouth of theoxbowlake.
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It was on anoxbowlakethat was cut off in 1979.
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About 30,000 years ago the river straightened to its present course leaving anoxbowlake.
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This left anoxbowlakewhich later dried up, leaving deposits of silt and peat.
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Sometimes the river will cut off a loop, shortening the channel and forming anoxbowlakeor billabong.
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Roughly 6,700 people live on the island within theoxbowlakeand so some limited fishing is permitted.
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This area replicates the habitat that might be found at anoxbowlake.
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The next year flooding caused the river to jump its banks and shorten the main stream, with the long meander becoming anoxbowlake.
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This may eventually cause anoxbowlaketo form.
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In certain habitats, if the scar has sufficient water, or as anoxbowlakefills with sediment, these areas may become marshes or wetlands.
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When deposition finally seals off the cutoff from the river channel, anoxbowlakeis formed.
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