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Desert dry wash is contrasted with desert riparian vegetation, which occurs in desert canyons and drainages where there is year-round water at or near the surface. [1] Plants must either be able to survive the severe flooding conditions or be able to reestablish themselves before the next flooding event. [1]
Alder Creek, Mill Creek, Fox Creek, Trail Canyon Creek Big Tujunga Creek is a major stream in Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California . From its headwaters high in the San Gabriel Mountains , it flows generally southwest for 28.8 miles (46.3 km), [ 4 ] joining Little Tujunga Creek to form the Tujunga Wash near Pacoima .
A box canyon is a small canyon that is generally shorter and narrower than a river canyon, with steep walls on three sides, allowing access and egress only through the mouth of the canyon. Box canyons were frequently used in the western United States as convenient corrals, with their entrances fenced.
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 Burton Trail descends from this road to the upper stretches of the Arroyo near Oakwilde Campground. The Gabrielino Trail, which is a popular journey for hikers, equestrians and bicyclists, travels up the steep canyon. A popular hike on the Gabrielino Trail is the 4 mile round trip to lower Switzer Falls from Switzer Picnic area.
The faster-moving streams took advantage of uplift-created joints in the rocks to remove all Cenozoic-aged formations and cut gorges into the plateaus. Zion Canyon was cut by the North Fork of the Virgin River in this way. Lava flows and cinder cones covered parts of the area during the later part of this process.
San Timoteo Creek (also called San Timoteo Wash, [3] colloquially known as San Tim [5]) is a stream in Riverside and San Bernardino counties in southern California, United States. A tributary of the Santa Ana River , it flows through San Timoteo Canyon . [ 6 ]
This side canyon of Grand Coulee in Washington was carved by the Missoula floods. A view through a coulee in Alberta , with steep but lower sides, and water in the bottom. Coulee , or coulée ( / ˈ k uː l eɪ / or / ˈ k uː l iː / ), [ 1 ] is any of various different landforms, all of which are kinds of valleys or drainage zones.