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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. Streambeds ...
a stream that branches off and flows away from the main stream channel. Drainage basin: a region of land where water from rain or snowmelt drains downhill into another body of water, such as a river, lake, or reservoir. Draw: a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally. See also wadi ...
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."
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 ...
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 ...
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").
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A dry gulch in the desert near Tamchy, Kyrgyzstan. The creek that may have run along the bottom of the gulch in the past has been diverted to a parallel aryk. A gulch is a deep V-shaped valley formed by erosion. It may contain a small stream or dry creek bed and is usually larger in size than a gully. [1]