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Rincon is a term used in the southwestern US to describe a dry, semicircular canyon with a butte in the middle. It is the remnant of an entrenched cutoff river meander.

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Rincon is a term used in the southwestern US to describe a dry, semicircular canyon with a butte in the middle. It is the remnant of an entrenched cutoff river meander.

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Earth • 7 months ago

GeoSights: San Juan River Rincon, San Juan County - Utah Geological Survey

The Wikipedia page for meander cutoff has a gif of how a meander creates an oxbow lake.

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7 months ago
when her dry semicircular canyon has a nice butte in the middle

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