Sentence examples for vast drainage from inspiring English sources

It is a continent of immense rivers largely because of their vast drainage area in the long and broad plains between the central shield and the marginal mountains.

The Danube's vast drainage of some 315,000 square miles (817,000 square km) includes a variety of natural conditions that affect the origins and the regimes of its watercourses.

The entire movement patterns and ecology of Black Skimmer are influenced by the wide-scale "opportunities" offered to migratory birds across vast drainage basins in South America (Davenport et al. 2016), which have a highly complex, interconnected and interdependent flood-pulse ecology (Haig et al. 1998).

Yamuna River is the most vulnerable polluted water body because of the role in carrying municipal, industrial wastes, and run offs from agriculture lands in vast drainage basins.

This Laramide uplift caused the sea to retreat and laid the framework for a vast drainage system of rivers flowing from the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains, the predecessor of the modern-day Mississippi watershed.

To the south lay the vast enclosed drainage system containing the large Lake Sudd.

Therefore, pre-LGM glacial advance profoundly altered the vast Missouri drainage through ice dams and/or re-routing of the river, thereby controlling the transfer of continental debris and freshwater toward southern outlets.

The lake is fed by a vast internal continental drainage basin, but evaporation rates in the region are so high that most of the rivers in the basin dry up before reaching the lake.

Far less money is spent now on maintaining the vast networks of water drainage and irrigation that crisscross the country than was expended under Communism.

These lakes receive the drainage from vast tracts of land, store it, pass it on seaward, or lose it to the atmosphere by evaporation.

The drainage of the vast Flow Country wilderness of Sutherland and Caithness became an environmental cause celebre.