The river's torrential flow, a hindrance to navigation, covers its floodplain with sand and gravel, which has commercial importance.
Mr. Lou uses water -- the choppy, opalescent surface of the river and the torrential downpours that seem to supply most of Shanghai's weather -- to terrific visual effect.
("My life is a torrential river of books,'' he told me, and then went on to describe, in torrents, the plot of the latest novel by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, who is one of his favorite writers).
Now, walking in the country with his dogs, Alfred peers through his camera lens at a tiny, half-frozen stream, but what he sees is a torrential river raging down a wild gorge in central Asia.
Within an hour the parched gutter had become a torrential river bursting its banks, as seen from an aircraft window.
Rivers are mostly torrential, and their valleys are accompanied by series of river terraces that are the result of movements in the Earth's crust, as well as climatic and sea-level changes in Holocene times (i.e., the past 11,700 years).
Of volcanic origin, Réunion consists mostly of rugged mountains in an advanced state of dissection by short torrential rivers.
The steep eastern face of the plateau is drained by numerous short, torrential rivers, such as the Mandrare, the Mananara, the Faraony, the Ivondro, and the Maningory, which discharge either into the coastal lagoons or directly into the sea over waterfalls and rapids.
In the cool mist of daybreak, hundreds of villagers fanned out across the forsaken reaches of this nation's remote interior, fording rivers swollen by torrential rains, slogging through muddy cornfields and clambering up slippery mountainsides to reach people sickened by AIDS.
The alluvial plains contain the remnants of torrential rivers and features clay soil in some areas.
Specifically, the proposed methodology wants to be a helpful tool to avoid sizing errors that can occur by applying the conventional calculation methods not suitable for torrential rivers.
