Sentence examples for tributary valley from inspiring English sources

The objective of this study is to examine tributary valley evolution in response to mainstream incision.

A new terrace would be formed as the knickpoint propagated upstream throughout the tributary valley.

The nomads had uprooted themselves from a tributary valley to live out the season at a lower elevation.

A detailed morphological and seismic stratigraphy study shows that the tributary valley systems (TVS) are formed by two types of valleys: gullies and leveed channels.

Three tributary valley systems of the Almeria Canyon (Dalias, Andarax and Gata) located on the Almeria Margin (Alboran Sea, SW Mediterranean) were studied using high-resolution techniques including swath bathymetry and TOPAS seismic reflection profiles.

In the largest nonglacial tributary valley, ∼ 0.08 km3 (∼ 8%) of the 0.59 km3 of > 500-m-thick stored fluvial and colluvial deposits has been transferred to the adjacent fjord.

Glacial action also created a number of "hanging valleys" by truncating former tributary valleys.

Its upper half is fed by a number of tributary valleys and trends southwestward.

Upstream from these "swallow holes" where surface streams are lost to the subsurface, the tributary valleys continue to deepen their channels.

Response in the tributary valleys to this base level fall includes evacuation of stored sediment, incision of slot gorges into bedrock, and landsliding on valley walls.

Some of the thickest loess deposits owe their origins to the sequestering of eolian sand particles by topographic traps such as the Touchet River and its tributary valleys.