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drainage basin

[′drān·ij ‚bā·sən]
(hydrology)
An area in which surface runoff collects and from which it is carried by a drainage system, as a river and its tributaries. Also known as catchment area; drainage area; feeding ground; gathering ground; hydrographic basin.
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drainage basin

The area within which all surface water flows toward the lowest point of its elevation.
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The drainage basin contributing to Barra Bonita reservoir includes the Piracicaba-Capivari-Jundiai basins (BHPCJ) and the Tiete-Sorocaba basins (BHTS), both located in the Sao Paulo State, as seen in Figure 1.
The hypsometric curve describes the distribution of elevation across an area of land, form one drainage basin to the entire planet.
Systematic description of the geometry of a drainage basin and its tributary-channel system required measurements of linear aspects of the drainage network (Tamma 2012).
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The facility, considered the premier native plant conservatory in the southeastern United States, displays plant species that are native to the Pearl River Drainage Basin of south central Mississippi and Louisiana.
Indirect pieces of evidence come from morphostructural analyses of the scarp and truncating valleys, as well as from clearly marked breaks of slope, drainage basin asymmetry, and the course of topolineaments which display different properties in each of the six main fault segments of the SMF.
Lawrence drainage basin. In quick, stylish and clearly composed sketches, it covers geography, ecology and history, surveys the most pressing issues facing the watershed, and provides upbeat lessons for rehabilitation and sustainability.
Funded by a one-cent, city/county special local option sales tax approved in 1997, the city's master plan emphasizes detention, conveyance, and pumping installations, mostly within the 6,300-acre drainage basin of the 5-1/2 mile long Casey Canal.
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