The Brahmaputra moves enormous amounts of sediment, while making and breaking river banks and thousands of islands.
It will give comfort to the residents of York that during that record breaking river level, the main flood defences, including the Foss barrier, held.
The coastline is broken by river mouths and deltas and large coastal lagoons as well as by the coral reefs, islands, cays, and banks that dot Nicaragua's continental shelf the widest in Central America.
It comprises an upland region that is forested with hardwoods and broken by river valleys, except for the south, which consists of coastal lowlands, and several small islands in the sound.
It consists of flat plains of sand and clay soil that are broken by rivers and bog areas.
And it broke the river, the country's spinal column, into bits.
As he travelled alone to his fishing camp, at the age of eighty-six, hisnowmobilele broke through river ice.
Writing as amici curiae, 26 States contend that breaking a river into small sections will only create confusion about title ownership and prevent any uniformity in ownership decisions.
