Sentence examples for river branches from inspiring English sources

Sporadic industrial buildings, many of them abandoned, line the railroad routes and river branches that radiate out from the centre.

Because most of the river branches of the delta are shallow, oceangoing vessels cannot reach Guangzhou but must dock at Huangpu (Whampoa), 10 miles (16 km) downstream.

Most commercial fishing is done on the Yukon River delta, where mountains disappear and the river branches into fingers on its way to the sea.

Department stores and offices crowded into the central area, and industrial growth along the river branches and rail lines was equally phenomenal.

Chicago can perhaps be thought of as a fragmented city, with the river branches, major streets, railroad embankments, and (more recently) expressways dividing it into a diversity of neighbourhoods and housing types.

Covering an area of about 1,500 square miles (3,900 square km) in southeastern Guangdong province, the delta is a complex network of river branches and channels divided by islands of alluvial soil and by hills that were once coastal islands.

A linear settlement pattern of ancient sites was interpreted as showing the distribution along a defunct river branch.

Harbour structures dating from the 1st 5th centuries AD discovered in Castélou and Mandirac were intended to canalize an Aude river branch allowing transfer and unloading of trade goods.

This study presents an enhancement of the Rating Curve Model (RCM) proposed by Moramarco et al. (2005) which was initially formulated to assess discharge at a downstream river site where only stage is monitored while the flow is recorded at an upstream section and significant lateral inflow can occur along the river branch.

The highway continues alongside the western bank of the river branch to the hamlet of Au Sable Forks, situated on the Essex Clinton County line and at the point where the Ausable River's east and west branches come together.

The primary scale of design and analysis for the purposes of both flooding safety and navigability is the river branch or tributary.