Sentence examples for steep stream from inspiring English sources
He led us up a steep stream where fresh stumps were still powdery with sawdust.
The inner areas of the Northern Bakony Mountains are breached by loess basins and steep stream valleys with rich karst formations.
These basins were exhumed during the old Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary (about 1.8 million years ago) with renewed uplift of the long-buried Rocky Mountains, along with uplift of the Colorado Plateau, producing steep stream gradients that resulted in the cutting of the Grand Canyon to a depth of more than 1,800 metres (about 6,000 feet).
Check dams are low, ruggedly built dams that act as flow impediments in relatively steep stream channels (Figures 9 and 10).
When tectonic activity first led to the uplift of the Sierra, the river formed as a steep stream eroding into the range's western flank, carrying sediments that would later help form the floor of the Central Valley.
The crest of the escarpment generally coincides with an asymmetric regional drainage divide, separating steep streams of the escarpment face from low-gradient streams of the Blue Ridge Upland.
As such, the impact of ice on water level and discharge in steep streams is different than what is usually found documented for large channels.
High-magnitude hydrogeomorphic events in steep streams (e.g., debris flows and debris floods) are capable of transporting considerable quantities of bed material, including large wood, although wood pieces that are longer than the channel width are often perceived as relatively stable elements in narrow headwater channels.
By the principles of nature, the more the Atchafalaya was given, the more it would want to take, because it was the steeper stream.
The much larger drainage area and yet steeper stream gradient helped to further accelerate downcutting.
The stream gradient of the Virgin River, whose North Fork flows through Zion Canyon in the park, ranges from 50-80 ft/mi (0.9 1.5%)—one of the steepest stream gradients in North America.
