Sentence examples for steep streams from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Its peculiar geomorphic setting is characterized by a steep mountain range very close to the coast, drained by short and steep streams (locally named Fiumara) able to carry huge bedload during seasonal flash-floods occurring from years to decades17, as well as by high average seafloor gradients (10°) and a dense drainage network of submarine canyons18.

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.

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).

Their new home will be the Greathough Brook, a short, steep stream on the southern flanks of Ruardean hill which runs through a narrow wooded valley before entering the village of Lydbrook.

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.

By the principles of nature, the more the Atchafalaya was given, the more it would want to take, because it was the steeper stream.