Sentence examples for flood basin from inspiring English sources

But images provided by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency showed that there was standing water in the vicinity, suggesting that the compound sat in a flood basin.

Hoboken's peculiar topography caused uneven flooding throughout the city; much of the city sits in a flood basin below sea level but some areas occupy a higher elevation.

Fluvial sediments consist of channel (channel bar, channel fill) and overbank (natural levee, crevasse splay, flood basin) deposits.

The lower members are made up of fluvial sheet-sandstone and red mudstone that migrated laterally on a flood basin within a semi-arid fan system.

It defines the building blocks of a prograding avulsion sequence from a high-resolution sequence stratigraphy perspective, proposes concepts in non-marine sequence stratigraphy and flood basin evolution, and defines the continental equivalent to a parasequence.

The dimensions and the changes therein were then linked to external forcings (increasing suspended sediment load, variable flooding intensity) and to natural preconditions (e.g., delta plain width, flood basin configuration).

The lonely flood basins of Old River will be transformed into a beautiful chain of parks and water gardens that reconnect people with the river that was so important to Dallas's history.

Mr. Tumminello said the buyouts were a less costly complement to other multimillion-dollar flood-control projects in the region that include buying fields in Pequannock and Lincoln Park for use as flood basins, dredging the Ramapo River and building locks on the Pompton Dam across the Ramapo River in Pompton Lakes.

These impacted on five identified flooding and settlement scenarios: (i) alluvial fans and aprons; (ii) laterally mobile rivers; (iii) rivers with well-developed levees and flood basins; (iv) river systems characterised by avulsions and floodouts; and (v) large river-fed wetlands.

County staff have been doing work to clean out other flood basins and storm drains around the county to control flooding.

By "emergency water storage," he clarified that he meant something like the way China evacuates flood basins, relocating sometimes millions of people during monsoon floods as a form of "water detention".