• An antecedent stream is a stream that maintains its original course and pattern despite the changes in underlying rock topography. A stream with a dendritic...
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    the area. Discordant drainage patterns are classified into two main types: antecedent and superimposed, while ante position drainage patterns combine the...
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    Chalk streams are rivers that rise from springs in landscapes with chalk bedrock. Since chalk is permeable, water percolates easily through the ground...
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    continuum concept River drainage system RIVPACS The Riverkeepers Upland and lowland rivers Angelier, E. 2003. Ecology of Streams and Rivers. Science Publishers...
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    is more than 6,400 km long. Sinkhole  Environment portal Antecedent drainage stream – Stream maintaining its original course despite changes in underlying...
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    trail. Devil's Gate is a remarkable example of superposed or an antecedent drainage stream. The Sweetwater River cuts a narrow 100-meter deep slot through...
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    Summer 2010. "Delaware Water Gap". National Park Service. Retrieved 23 December 2023. Antecedent drainage stream Defile (geography) Narrows Peneplain v t e...
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    permanent natural river flowing within them, though some of them have streams or seasonal watercourses such as wadis. The Arabian Peninsula is the largest...
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    fall, the rainfall will immediately produce surface runoff. The level of antecedent soil moisture is one factor affecting the time until soil becomes saturated...
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    Hōteo River Raft Race, a no-holds-barred event. The river is an antecedent drainage stream. The river began flowing when the surrounding lands were a low-lying...
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    Meander (redirect from Meandering Stream)
    characteristic of an antecedent stream or river that had incised its channel into underlying strata. An antecedent stream or river is one that maintains...
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    They also knew it as the Khumbu Pass. It is now known to be an "antecedent drainage stream" as first suggested by Lawrence Wager following the 1933 British...
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    Storage opportunities in the drainage network (e.g., lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, channel and bank storage capacity) A stream hydrograph is commonly determining...
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    Zhangzhung Kingdom until its fall in the 8th century AD. Sutlej is an antecedent river, which existed before the Himalayas and entrenched itself while...
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    equation by using data from 262 stream basins in 10 metropolitan areas of the conterminous United States with drainage areas ranging from 0.35 to 216 square...
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    Directive, 2000/60/EC. This takes in water management and flood risk plans antecedent. Between 2009 and 2015 the Po Valley Project (the implementation of the...
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    believed to refer to the alkaline water. The river is an ancient stream, following an antecedent canyon. Evidence of human habitation along the river goes back...
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    Designing bridges. Designing sewers and urban drainage systems. Analyzing the impacts of antecedent moisture on sanitary sewer systems. Predicting geomorphologic...
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    Trabuco watershed is the Aliso Creek drainage basin, on the north the Santiago Creek, and on the northeast streams draining into the Lake Elsinore area...
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    the creation of the Peninsular Ranges, maintained its course as an antecedent stream due to its increased erosive power. The canyon was eroded through...
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    The structure of the region previous to faulting was dependent on long antecedent processes of accumulation and deformation and the surface of the region...
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    in South America at 2,250 kilometres (1,400 mi).[citation needed] Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers 989,000 km2 (382,000 sq mi)...
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  • approximately 66°33′47.1″ south of the Equator. Contrast Arctic Circle. antecedent stream A stream or other watercourse that existed before the present form of the...
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    into the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi. The river has a total drainage area of circa 1,120,000 km2 (430,000 sq mi). Its estimated annual flow...
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    basin). Ephemeral and intermittent headwater streams and GIWs display the shortest drainage area and stream length, but together they can represent the...
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    Bell Canyon is a major drainage of the Santa Ana Mountains in Orange County, California in the United States. Bell Creek (also known as Bell Canyon Creek...
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    reason for such an unusual course and drastic change is that the river is antecedent to the Himalayas, meaning that it had existed before them and has entrenched...
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    Colorado River (category Drainage basins of the Pacific Ocean)
    5 million years ago, the river maintained its ancestral course (as an antecedent stream) and began to cut the Grand Canyon. Antecedence played a major part...
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    mathematical model used to simulate the flow of rivers, streams, groundwater movement or drainage front displacement, and calculate water quality parameters...
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    Officer for Health, and Thomas Fresh, Inspector of Nuisances (an early antecedent of the environmental health officer). One of five applicants for the post...
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