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  2. Watershed delineation - Wikipedia

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    Watershed delineation is the process of identifying the boundary of a watershed, also referred to as a catchment, drainage basin, or river basin.It is an important step in many areas of environmental science, engineering, and management, for example to study flooding, aquatic habitat, or water pollution.

  3. List of drainage basins by area - Wikipedia

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    It includes drainage basins which do not flow to the ocean (endorheic basins). It includes oceanic sea drainage basins which have hydrologically coherent areas (oceanic seas are set by IHO convention). The oceans drain approximately 83% of the land in the world. The other 17% – an area larger than the basin of the Arctic Ocean – drains to ...

  4. File:Drainage basin.png - Wikipedia

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    Drainage_basin.png (250 × 327 pixels, file size: 22 KB, MIME type: image/png) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  5. Drainage basin - Wikipedia

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    Drainage basin of the Ohio River, part of the Mississippi River drainage basin. In hydrology, the drainage basin is a logical unit of focus [clarification needed] for studying the movement of water within the hydrological cycle. The process of finding a drainage boundary is referred to as watershed delineation. Finding the area and extent of a ...

  6. Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

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    Drainage divide – Elevated terrain that separates neighbouring drainage basins; Endorheic basin – Closed drainage basin that has no outflow; Entrenched meander – One of a series of curves in a channel of a matured stream; Epigenetic valley – Valley created by erosion and with little or no sympathy for bedrock structure

  7. Drainage system (geomorphology) - Wikipedia

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    Dendritic drainage: the Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet, seen from space: snow cover has melted in the valley system. In geomorphology, drainage systems, also known as river systems, are the patterns formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin. They are governed by the topography of land, whether a particular region is ...

  8. List of drainage basins of Australia - Wikipedia

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    A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain and melting snow or ice drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean. The drainage basin includes both the streams and rivers that convey the water as well as the land surfaces from which water drains into those channels, and is ...

  9. Endorheic basin - Wikipedia

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    The endorheic basin that feeds water into Üüreg Lake, Mongolia NASA photo of the endorheic Tarim Basin, China. An endorheic basin (/ ˌ ɛ n d oʊ ˈ r iː. ɪ k / EN-doh-REE-ik; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into ...