Sentence examples for fluvial downcutting from inspiring English sources

Incised bounding surfaces were produced by fluvial downcutting.

In addition, based on the OSL ages of different units in the sedimentary sequences of the terraces, we conclude that the durations of terrace aggradations and floodplain widening lasted much longer than the periods of fluvial downcutting.

Aside from clearance by humans, forest destruction, for example, may be caused by climatic change and downcutting by fluvial processes.

At this point in time, the Yellow River could bring large amount of fluvial sediment east of the Sanmen Gorge after the gorge was downcut.

Fluvial incision into these surfaces appears therefore to progress headward in response to downcutting of the South Platte River.

The deepest unit (U3) can be interpreted as the Perth Formation, which consists of interbedded sediments that were deposited in a large palaeo-valley downcutting into the underlying acoustic basement (bedrock: Tamala Limestone and Kings Park Formation), under a fluvial to estuarine setting, existing between ~ 130 and 80 ky BP (in the Last Interglacial).

The longitudinal correlations of terrace levels reveal increased vertical terrace spacing in the foreland, which could originate from enhanced fluvial erosion after the Mid-Pleistocene climatransitioninn in combination with base level lowering controlled by the progressive downcutting of the Catalan Coastal Range.

However, thick sequences of alluvial fill and fluvial terraces cut into this fill record an incision history for the river that includes several periods of stalled downcutting and aggradation.

In a 2.2 km long section of the Waihuka tributary (217 km2) of the Waipaoa River (2150 km2) in eastern North Island, New Zealand, a sequence of at least ten fluvial terraces and abandoned meanders up to 45 m above the present river records rates and times of post-glacial downcutting.

"I was not trained in fluvial geology".

Gravel mining has also caused channel downcutting.