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abandoned channel

abandoned channel

[ə′ban·dənd ′chan·əl]
(hydrology)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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BETTER THAN NO HOME AT ALL - The abandoned Channel Ridge View housing in Babatngon has no water or electricity but it provides shelter for many Yolanda survivors.
Looking at satellite pictures, scientists from Penn and University of Minnesota Duluth noticed that floodwaters principally filled abandoned channel paths.
Given the expected frost and inspections, should racing be abandoned Channel 4 will broadcast from the all-weather meetings.
If either Sandown or Wetherby are abandoned Channel 4 will switch to Lingfield for live action.
Leopold describes an abandoned channel of the San Juan, dry for a million years, that has precisely the slope of the present channel.
The Dandot Formation is followed by terrestrial:fluvial sediments of the Warchha Sandstone which marks a prominent fall in the sea level and contains channel facies of abandoned channel (WRI), Meander channel (WR2) and Multistory channel deposits (WR3), while upward the Sardhai Formation record transitional channel sheet deposits (SRI, legoonal delta environment (SR2), lagoonal environment (SR3) and inner lacustrine environment (Lagoon) (SR4) facies which were deposited in the transgression phase.
In the north part of the basin, two irrigation channels (one north of Stoicanecti city and the other south of Radomirecti) on west-east direction having as purpose the taking over of water on gravitational way from Olt river and using it in irrigating the surface of the basin, but this system was not finalized, only the built and abandoned channels remaining.
If conservationists want to protect the yellow warbler songbird, for example, the researchers found it is best for farmers to provide the birds with habitat in abandoned channels on the river side of mainstream levees along the Mississippi River.
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