Sentence examples for mountain drainage from inspiring English sources

Alluvial fans border the mountain fronts with the apex of each fan just within a canyon mouth that serves as the outlet for a mountain drainage system.

Colluvial sediment dynamics are examined using a 70-year landslide inventory in formerly glaciated mountain drainage basins of coastal British Columbia, Canada.

Mankin and his colleagues, who include fellow Columbia postdoc Deepti Singh and researchers from the University of Zurich, the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and Stanford, examined a total of 421 mountain drainage basins on four continents and considered how their conditions might change over the next century, based on multiple climate models.

The mountain's drainage pattern radiates to the southwest, north, and east.

At the scale of the mountain belt, drainage basin metrics such as relief, hypsometric index and slope values seem to explain the observed variance in the data population, conversely to the first-order average precipitation pattern, suggesting a strong tectonic control on the regional pattern of denudation rates.

The Plio-Quaternary active tectonics was interpreted through a detailed geomorphic study of the fault-generated mountain fronts and drainage pattern of the Spildağı High Ranges.

The dictator dies, shrivelled and demented, in his bed; he flees the rebels in a private plane; he is caught hiding in a mountain outpost, a drainage pipe, a spider hole.

Because a clear physical relationship exists between landslides and the fundamental morphological elements of a hilly or mountain region, namely, drainage and divided lines, the slope-unit technique seems appropriate for landslide susceptibility assessment.

In Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, denuded mountains and unmaintained drainage systems were blamed for widespread floods.

Sliding across snow and ice is a rapid and efficient means of travel, and otters traveling over mountain passes, between drainages, or descending from mountain lakes often slide continuously for several hundred meters.

Further regional mapping using RADARSAT imagery has the potential to delineate the regional structural architecture of the Transantarctic Mountains and to establish the degree of spatial coupling between structures associated with mountain uplift and regional drainage patterns of the Antarctic ice sheets.