The more familiar ones are external tides, storm surges, river plumes, coastal topographic waves, upwelling and alongshore boundary currents, mesoscale instability eddies, and topographic contour currents and standing meanders.
Now, when I once more recall the words of the prophet, "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream," I know more than ever that nothing can create this but a broad, surging river of humanity.
But let each march, each campaign for what is right, be an opportunity to broaden and deepen that surging river, to draw more people to the cause, to teach what is needed, and why it is needed, and to inspire with a vision of how it will inevitably come about.
All the while, the surging rivers have continued to rise.
It is also a big country, larger than Texas, teeming with fertile land, surging rivers and copper.
Its government is eager to harness what natural resources it has, notably an abundance of mountains and surging rivers.
WASHINGTON — President Obama, facing his first major natural disaster as president, used his weekly address on Saturday to urge those in flood-stricken areas in the Midwest to "remain vigilant" in monitoring the surging rivers there and to assure the nation that his administration was being vigilant as well.
In Indian-administered Kashmir some 175 people have been killed, many of them swept away by surging rivers.
But in addition to that, during the two hours I spent navigating jagged rock faces that soared to ferns, perched like coiffures atop the cliffs, and dark caves where swells pushed through like surging rivers, I also received an education in the region's easily overlooked marine biology underfoot.
Surging rivers east of Marigot and west of Jacmel closed roads in that region, and the main road between Jérémie and Les Cayes was also closed.
