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The bridge also contains two and a half feet of soil at the top of the arches and nine feet deep at the piers. [8] On August 28, 2011, rain runoff from Hurricane Irene (at that point a tropical storm) flooded the Deerfield River and engulfed the Bridge of Flowers. [citation needed]
A tension zone is a transitional zone between two distinctive zones, the zones may be influenced by climatic factors, [1] [2] and geological variation. [ 3 ] creating a floristic tension zone. [ 4 ] A marine tension zone may be affected by variables such as depth, climate or salinity. [ 5 ]
The shore zone is the transitional zone between the water systems and land, similar to the riparian zone seen in running water systems. [6] This area functions in much the same way as the riparian zone, the plants protecting the water from pollution, flooding, and heat stress, while also providing nutrients and habitats for aquatic and wetland ...
Bridge of Flowers could refer to: Bridge of Flowers (event), an event in 1990 by demonstrators who advocated for the unification of Romania and Moldova.
Botany is a natural science concerned with the study of plants.The main branches of botany (also referred to as "plant science") are commonly divided into three groups: core topics, concerned with the study of the fundamental natural phenomena and processes of plant life, the classification and description of plant diversity; applied topics which study the ways in which plants may be used for ...
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The hyporheic zone is the region of sediment and porous space beneath and alongside a stream bed, where there is mixing of shallow groundwater and surface water.The flow dynamics and behavior in this zone (termed hyporheic flow or underflow) is recognized to be important for surface water/groundwater interactions, as well as fish spawning, among other processes. [1]
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