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The beds are usually well preserved even if they get buried because the banks and canyons made by the stream are typically hard, although soft sand and debris often fill the bed. Dry, buried streambeds can actually be underground water pockets. [1] During times of rain, sandy streambeds can soak up and retain water, even during dry seasons ...
The Doña Ana County Flood Commission in the U.S. state of New Mexico defines an arroyo as "a watercourse that conducts an intermittent or ephemeral flow, providing primary drainage for an area of land of 40 acres (160,000 m 2) or larger; or a watercourse which would be expected to flow in excess of one hundred cubic feet per second as the result of a 100 year storm event."
The dry bed of the River Ebble, pictured in August A winterbourne is a stream or river that is dry through the summer months, a special case of an intermittent stream. Winterbourne is a British term derived from the Old English winterburna ("winter stream").
Dry valley: A valley not created by sustained surface water flow. Erosional valley: A valley formed by erosion. Hollow: A term used regionally for a small valley surrounded by mountains or ridges. In Ireland, New England, Appalachia, and the Ozarks of Arkansas and Missouri, a hollow is a small valley or dry stream bed; sometimes also called a ...
Rocky stream in Italy Frozen stream in Enäjärvi, Pori, Finland Stream near Montriond in south-eastern France Aubach (Wiehl) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. A stream is a continuous body of surface water [1] flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a ...
The dry bed of the River Ebble, pictured in August. A winterbourne is a stream or river that is dry through the summer months, a special case of an intermittent stream. Winterbourne is a British term derived from the Old English winterburna ("winter stream").
Armour of basalt blocks. In hydrology and geography, armor is the association of surface pebbles, rocks or boulders with stream beds or beaches.Most commonly hydrological armor occurs naturally; however, a man-made form is usually called riprap, when shorelines or stream banks are fortified for erosion protection with large boulders or sizable manufactured concrete objects.
Dry or seasonal streams (2 C, 5 P) E. Eskers (1 C, ... (drainage) F. Floodplain; Fluvial landforms of streams ... Stream bed; Stream head cut; Subterranean river;