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单词 distributary
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Streams can be divided into three main sections: the many smaller tributaries in the source area, the main trunk stream in the floodplain and the distributaries at the mouth of the stream. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
Had the river been left to its own devices, a super-wet spring like that of 2011 would have sent the Mississippi and its distributaries surging over their banks. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z
And at the center of the struggle is the Atchafalaya river, a 135 mile-long distributary of the Mississippi River that empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The water protectors are back: the battle against Lousiana's pipeline 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z
The course of history is full of confluences and meanders, oxbows, watersheds, dams and floods, tributaries and distributaries. Standing Rock inspired Ocasio-Cortez to run. That's the power of protest | Rebecca Solnit 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z
Every 1,000 years or so, it abandoned its main channel for one of its distributaries. Louisiana fights the sea, and loses 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z
As one part of the delta becomes overwhelmed by sediment, the slow-moving flow gets diverted back and forth, over and over, and forms a spread out network of smaller distributary channels. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
The agency’s master plan calls for punching eight giant holes through the levees on the Mississippi and two more through those on its main distributary, the Atchafalaya. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z
Saline water has long been invading the delta, but because of the drought there is not enough fresh water in the river and its distributaries to dilute the seawater. Drought and ‘Rice First’ Policy Imperil Vietnamese Farmers 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z
They were called “distributaries,” for the job they did spreading that land-building sediment ever farther afield. Losing Ground: Southeast Louisiana is Disappearing, Quickly 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z
These three western distributaries are known as the Nadia rivers, and are important, not only as great highways for internal traffic, but also as the headwaters of the Hugli. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z
The Mississippi River delta is a river-dominated delta, shaped by levees along the river and its distributaries that confine the flow forming a shape called a bird-foot delta. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
The meander took the Mississippi so far west that it ran into the Atchafalaya, at that time a distributary of a different river, the Red, which itself was a Mississippi tributary. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z
They occupied the north bank of the Fresno River and the distributaries of the Chowchilla River. The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California 2012-02-06T03:00:12.387Z
The most westerly is the Hugli, which receives the waters of a number of distributary channels that start from the parent Ganges above Murshidabad. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z
Like other deltaic distributaries, they are subject to sudden changes in their channels, and to constant silting up. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z
During flood stages when rivers have lots of water available, it develops distributaries that are separated by sand bars and sand ridges. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
The river divides on its delta into many distributaries and enters the sea by several mouths. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z
It has hitherto been largely irrigated by public and private inundation canals, but this form of irrigation may be superseded by the excavation of a new distributary from the Lower Jhelam Canal. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
In this way Claudius prevented too great an ascendency in Italy of this second stranger and supplied a distributary to the current of popular superstition. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
The outer part of this zone branches out into dark lines, which occupy all the surrounding region, and seem to be distributary canals by which the liquid mass may return to its natural position. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars
As distributary channels fill with sediment, the stream is diverted laterally, and the alluvial fan develops into a cone shape with distributaries radiating from the canyon mouth. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Yukon begins to divide into separate channels, several of which enter the sea as independent distributaries at a distance of about 150 miles from the outer border of its delta. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z
There are 390 miles of branch canals from thirty to fifty feet wide and from six to eight feet deep, and 2,095 miles of distributaries, or ditches running between villages and squares. Modern India
The river is thus building a highly compound delta, composed of the secondary deltas formed at the mouth of each of its distributaries. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z
The distributaries of streams, or the separate channels into which they divide on deltas, etc., are also subject to conspicuous and sometimes sudden changes. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z
In the river provinces are many canals which act as distributaries during the spring overflow, carry the water a long distance and distribute it over a large area during the periods of inundation. Modern India
This extension of the stream and deposition of silt by its distributaries have added about 1,000 square miles to the land. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z
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