How does the water of an oxbow lake stay there despite it being cut off from a supply of water? What stops it evaporating like a giant puddle?

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How does the water of an oxbow lake stay there despite it being cut off from a supply of water? What stops it evaporating like a giant puddle?

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Quite often they do eventually evaporate, it just takes an incredibly long time since there can be a lot of water in them. They also get replenished by things like rain and runoff, which slows the rate of eventual evaporation.

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