upper Valley Field trip

Oxbow

First of all, the Los Hebanos Ferry was a major discovery for me.  I did not know this existed and so close to home in the Rio Grande Valley, the "real" valley.  It is here that we learned about the river cutbank and the oxbow.  The cutbank, which is where the flow of water is much faster and "cuts" through the land. The oxbow is the side of the river where the water moves slower and doesn't "cut" through the land.