Sentence examples for surface stream from inspiring English sources

In this type of karst landscape, the pattern of surface stream channels and stream valleys is still in evidence, though much of the drainage may be underground.

There will come a time when they are large enough to take the entire flow of the surface stream during periods of low flow, and during these low-flow periods typically during summer and fall the surface stream will run dry.

As previously noted, karst landscapes owe their existence to the removal of bedrock in solution and to the development of underground drainage without the development of surface stream valleys.

The "Hydrology" toolset in ArcGIS, developed by Esri (2004), has been commonly used for DEM preprocessing and surface stream simulation.

Both are underlain by Mississippian limestone and fractured bedrock with very low surface stream density and N-rich groundwater.

Five years ago when I was director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), an Arizona congressman had some concerns about a USGS report on the impact of overpumping of groundwater on surface stream flows.

There are no surface streams.

Most cave passages are not graded like surface streams.

Excess irrigation water also soaks into the earth, replenishing groundwater and, eventually, feeding surface streams.

Others have been flooded by damming surface streams and creating lakes over the burning coal.

Such karsts are usually rolling plains that have few surface streams and often no surface valleys.