Sentence examples for dense drainage from inspiring English sources

In some areas where high-intensity rainfall coincides with low Ks values at shallow soil depths, frequent overland flow entails dense drainage networks.

Straightened stream channels and altered and drained wetlands have adversely impacted streams and rivers throughout Midwestern USA, where some of the most dense drainage and riparian ecosystem alteration in the world have occurred.

Its peculiar geomorphic setting is characterized by a steep mountain range very close to the coast, drained by short and steep streams (locally named Fiumara) able to carry huge bedload during seasonal flash-floods occurring from years to decades17, as well as by high average seafloor gradients (10°) and a dense drainage network of submarine canyons18.

We developed a lumped conceptual rainfall runoff model for rapid prediction of runoff generated in the unique hydrological setting with flat terrain, sandy soils, high groundwater table, and a dense drainage canal network in south Florida.

In an unusual combined nested and paired catchment experiment in northern England, the 1.5-km2 Coalburn catchment (90% mature plantation forest with a dense drainage ditch network) is paired with the 1.4-km2 Flothers catchment (64% peat grassland), both being nested within the 6.9-km2 Throssburn mixed forest and peat grassland catchment.

The estimated drainage density in the study area as presented in Fig. 8 revealed moderately dense drainage network with values of 0.5 to greater than 1 km/km2.

The calanchi are intensely dissected landscapes, presenting rill and gully landforms and a dense dendritic drainage network.

Both localities are characterized by dense dendritic drainage systems (Fig. 1b).

Ordinary soil is too dense for drainage and root development, so use a commercial potting mix or mix soil with sand or other mineral elements such as Sponge Rock, redwood or orchid bark.

The terrain is characterized by open herbaceous savannas where GFs follow a dense braided drainage network of rivers toward the Orinoco catchment.

The reason is the topographic complexity and patchiness of the landscape due to a dense road and drainage network.