Sentence examples for tributary systems from inspiring English sources

"River" channels coated with dark hydrocarbon deposits are common, sometimes running along faults and sometimes with extensive tributary systems.

Partly confined valley settings are restricted to relatively short reaches of two tributary systems.

Reference to labor systems, especially African as well as Indian enslavement and tributary systems, appear in many of these works.

The fact that the tributary systems of these rivers interlock allowed adventurers in the seventeenth century to go by river from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean with only five portages.

Fluvial, estuarine and marine sediments in low relief landscapes of the lowland plain have supported the development of meandering sand bed rivers, with many cut-and-fill (intact valley fill) deposits in tributary systems.

The tributary systems are relatively young, having formed after retreat of the Wisconsinan ice sheet, and are rapidly evolving in response to a base level fall of nearly 70 m–13,400 YBP.

What was the tributary system and how will it shape China's future behaviour?

The tributary system is presented as artful statecraft evolved by China to manage interstate relationships in an asymmetrical world.

The present spatial pattern of the Vistula's tributary system and delta is the result of the changes in relief that occurred beginning about 30 million years ago.

The court will decide if the federal government has jurisdiction over wetlands that are part of a drainage area or tributary system but do not actually abut navigable waters.

The question is whether the federal government is properly asserting jurisdiction over wetlands that may be part of a drainage area or tributary system but do not actually abut the "navigable waters" to which the Clean Water Act refers.