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Encyclopedia Britannica



BAYOU (pronounced bai-yoo, probably a corruption of Fr. boyau, gut)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 559 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BAYOU (pronounced bai-yoo, probably a corruption of Fr. boyau, gut) , an " ox-bow " lake left behind by a river that has abandoned its old channel in the
lower
  stages of its course. Good examples are found in Palmyra Lake, in the
Mississippi
  valley below
Vicksburg
 , and in Osage river, Missouri. As a river swings from side to side in a
series
  of curves which widen laterally where the current is slow and the country more or less level, there is a tendency in flood times for the water to impinge more strongly upon the
convex
 
bank
  where the
curve
  leaves the
main
  channel. This
bank
  will be eaten away, and the process will be repeated until the
base
  of the "
isthmus
  " is cut through, and the descending channel meets the returning
curve
 , which is thus left stranded and filled with dead water, while the stream runs directly past it in the shorter course cut by the flood waters that deepen the new channel, and leave an isolated ox-bow lake in the old curve.


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