Sentence examples for river elevation from inspiring English sources

A proxy for river elevation demonstrates the degree to which river networks reorganize and equilibrate.

Here in Morgan City, a picturesque town of shrimpers and oil workers and the last big stop for the Atchafalaya before it empties into the gulf, all the talk was about river elevations and levees.

Achievement of wetland conditions can be achieved with a smaller total flood release, provided that repeated cycling of higher and lower river elevations is timed to benefit from the characteristic drainage behavior of wetland soils.

Seven variables (rivers, elevation, annual precipitation, soil suitability for agriculture, population density, paved roads, and unpaved roads), were identified as potential deforestation drivers.

The total fall in the river's elevation is about 200 feet (60 m), and the seventh and largest cataract is 800 yards (730 m) wide.

These conditions are determined by flooding frequency and duration, distance to river channels, elevation and water flow velocity.

Topographic relief, river bank elevation and flood magnitude were found to be the key factors contributing to the level of connectivity.

Trails cling grimly to precipitous slopes overlooking the river from elevations of 4,000 to 5,000 feet (1,200 to 1,500 metres).

In the south of the region, near the rivers, the elevation of the potentiometric surface is 3 m; this increases to up to 60 m at points in the north distant from any rivers (Ait El Mekki 2010).

Remarkably, despite the fact that western Oregon harbors an extremely complex landscape (two mountain ranges, large rivers, low-elevation valleys, and numerous anthropogenic changes to the landscape over the past 50 years), a single linear geographical dimension described the dominant genetic structure pattern in four diverse taxonomic groups (Fig. 4).

We find that unpredictable stage reversals can produce substantial crop losses and shorten significantly the length of average growing seasons on lower elevation river bars.