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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 riverscape [1] (also called river landscape) [2] comprises the features of the landscape which can be found on and along a river. Most features of riverscapes include natural landforms (such as meanders and oxbow lakes) but they can also include artificial landforms (such as man-made levees and river groynes). Riverscapes can be divided into ...
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."
High Street, Benwick, East Cambridgeshire, built on a roddon [nb 1] [1] Houses built on a roddon [nb 1] [2] at Prickwillow, East Cambridgeshire A roddon, also written as rodham, roddam or rodden, is the dried raised bed of a watercourse such as a river or tidal-creek, especially in The Fens in eastern England.
Riverbed forms, for example, riffles, pools, runs, gravel bars, other depositional characteristics, bed armor layer. Riverbank erosion and/or polishment. Indications of waterborne debris and sediment transport. Defined river or stream bed and banks. The catchment area exceeds .25 square miles (0.65 km 2).
The dry bed of the River Ebble, pictured in August The same location in April 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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It may contain a small stream or dry creek bed and is usually larger in size than a gully. [1] Sudden intense rainfall upstream may produce flash floods in the bed of the gulch. Witches Gulch found in the Dells of the Wisconsin River. In eastern Canada, gulch refers to: [2] a narrow deep cove (Newfoundland) a narrow saltwater channel (Nova Scotia)