Sentence examples for debris streams from inspiring English sources
Hillslopes are scoured and washed bare of weathered debris; streams erode gullies and transport large volumes of sediment from the uplands to the plains; broad, braided river channels are developed; and extensive alluvial plains are formed.
Upper slopes tend to be erosional but with coarse-grained debris streams moving across them.
"Over the past 15 or 20 years, astronomers have done a very good job at figuring out, 'OK, here's where the debris streams will lie,'" Rich Talcott, senior editor of Astronomy magazine, told The News-Press. "I'm thinking the odds are pretty good we'll get something nice May 24".
Fig. 1 Selected active debris flow streams in the north part of the Barcelonnette Basin with their respective control point at the fan.
Fig. 5 Susceptibility map of the area proposed by Blahut et al. (2010b) Fig. 6 Selected active debris flow streams in the southern part of the Valtellina Valley with their respective control point at the fans.
The debris stream left by comet Swift-Tuttle, which produces the Perseids, is wide, so the shooting stars could make an appearance well before the moon becomes full.
The Environmental Protection Agency regularly updates its list of tanks, containers and other materials that should be sorted out of the debris stream here.
The shower is part of the debris stream left behind by the comet 209P/LINEAR, which Earth will be passing through.
They include older slope wash, debris-flow deposits, raised beach deposits, slope debris, stream-flood gravels, hyperconcentrated flood gravels and younger slope wash.
Previously rendered only in artists' conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet.
Hubble is sited in orbit around the Earth and can see some exceptionally fine detail; Rosetta, on the other hand, is positioned between Mars and Jupiter and can see aspects of the object's geometry that are beyond home-based observatories, revealing the debris stream's overall shape and angle.
