NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY - FARGO, N D MEANDER SCAR, CASS COUNTY, N.D. Click on the photo for an enlarged image. (67K) Many of parklands bordering the Red River in eastern Fargo are looping depressions of long-abandoned river channel. Most of these lands originated as meander loops, later abandoned by the river as oxbow lakes as a consequence of neck cutoffs. Sediment-infilling of the oxbow lakes, coupled with entrenchment of the present river channel, have left these meander loops behind as meander scars. (Photo by D.P. Schwert, North Dakota State University). [ Stream Features of North Dakota ]