Sentence examples for natural blockage from inspiring English sources
The natural blockage of river channels by landslide debris gives rise to a range of potentially adverse processes including complete or partial damming, backwater inundation and sedimentation, catastrophic outbursts of impounded lake waters, and downstream river aggradation following dam failure.
The term "landslide dam" identifies "the natural blockages of river channels caused by slope movements" (Canuti et al., 1998).
Another promising tool to investigate large natural blockages would be the TEM or TDEM (Transient or Time-Domain Electro-Magnetics) technique.
Natural blockages formed by bedrock landslides may persist for several tens, hundreds or thousands of years and thus could store large amounts of water, posing a potential threat to communities living downstream, sometimes hundreds of kilometres from the dam site.
Landslide dams and other natural river blockages such as moraine dams and glacier-ice dams are formed in narrow valleys bordered by oversteepened slopes.
The results indicate that the height of landslide dams is an important parameter for assessing the stability of natural river blockages.
Nevertheless, the study of sedimentological characteristics of natural river blockages is imperative for natural hazard assessment studies, as they have a major influence on the overall strength of dams, and control the rate of breach development (Fread 1988; Casagli et al. 2003).
Kinetic inhibition is a new means of preventing flow channel blockage by natural gas hydrates.
Three-month continuous operation of recovering dirty exhaust gas waste heat shows that the new type heat pipe exchanger can save 15% natural gas without any blockage of the gas side channel.
Perhaps this problem can be solved with the help of a natural model of physiological blockage of tooth development in the diastemal tooth primordia at a bud stage.
Sometimes management of logging debris is carried out poorly, causing blockages in natural watercourses and resulting in erosion and a deterioration of water quality.
