Thomas Cole's painting View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm is better known by the name of this kind of landform, which appears at right-center.
Thomas Cole's painting View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm is better known by the name of this kind of landform, which appears at right-center. One of these called "Reelfoot" was created in west Tennessee by the action of the New Madrid earthquake. One called "Providence" was the subject of a scheme by Ulysses S. Grant's engineers to bypass the fortress of Vicksburg. A (*) "billabong" is the Australian term for this kind of landform, which appears in the title of a novel about a  ► lynch mob by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. For 10 points, identify this kind of lake, formed when a meander is cut off from the main course of a river.
Thomas Cole's painting View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm is better known by the name of this kind of landform, which appears at right-center.
oxbow lake [prompt on "lake"; accept The Ox-Bow Incident]