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Yup. There's clearly a former oxbow there. Europe was basically all deforested farmland at one point. As it industrialized the last places farming was econom
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Yup. There's clearly a former oxbow there.
Europe was basically all deforested farmland at one point. As it industrialized the last places farming was economically viable were the most fertile land which is going to be the floodplain and the river's former oxbow and resulting swamp.
Then a developer probably comes along (say 1910 or 1920 or something) and builds on the easiest to build land, which is the already cleared land of the last farm to croak. Then 100yr later we get a record rainfall and the river takes it all back for a couple weeks.