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A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river and is confined within a channel, or the banks of the waterway. [1] Usually, the bed does not contain terrestrial (land) vegetation and instead supports different types of aquatic vegetation ( aquatic plant ), depending on the type of streambed material and water velocity.
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."
[49]: 57–58 A wash, desert wash, or arroyo is normally a dry streambed in the deserts of the American Southwest, which flows after sufficient rainfall. In Italy, an intermittent stream is termed a torrent (Italian: torrente). In full flood the stream may or may not be "torrential" in the dramatic sense of the word, but there will be one or ...
Stream bed is the channel bottom of a stream or river or creek. Riverbed may also refer to: Wadi, a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain; Riverbed Technology, an American technology company; Riverbeds (band), a Canadian post-rock band
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; often called a holler.
The meandering aisle resembles a dry streambed surrounded by rock outcroppings covered with succulents and cactus. Camellias and jasmines were in full bloom. Behind the three main halls is the ...
Photograph of a dry arroyo stream bed near Palm Desert, California. Intermittent streams can be found in many different climate regions. For example, arroyos are intermittent streams that erode deep vertical channels through fine sediment in arid and semiarid regions in the American Southwest during precipitation events. [22]
Dell in the Little Carpathians with a dry stream channel. In physical geography, a dell is a grassy hollow—or dried stream bed—often partially covered in trees. [1] [2] In literature, dells have pastoral connotations, frequently imagined as secluded and pleasant safe havens.