gravel bar

collocation in English

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gravel
noun[U]
uk
/ˈɡræv.əl/us
/ˈɡræv.əl/
small, rounded stones, often mixed ...
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bar
noun[C]
uk
/bɑːr/us
/bɑːr/
a place where drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, are sold and drunk, or the area in such a place where the person serving the ...
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There are gravel bars and point bars in the lower reaches of the creek.
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In many places, fishing is good from stream banks and gravel bars, and much of the river is also fished from boats.
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They also showed gravel bars and shoals, ferry and landing locations, and other features important to river travel.
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The slightly adhesive and demersal eggs, approximately 1 mm in diameter, appear to be dispersed at random over gravel bars in moderate current.
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It passes over agravelbar, then receives three small creeks in succession from the left in a fairly steep forest canyon.
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The pond is excavated in thegravelbarand filled from the natural water table.
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The thrower should move down thegravelbaror river bank to allow a controlled tensioning of the rope and pendulum motion for the swimmer to swing to shore.
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Thegravelbarhas similarly been resubmerged, becoming a hazard to boating and unfortunately extirpating the colony of common terns and herring gulls that bred there.
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Gravel bars and abandoned eagle nests may be used.
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It also inhabits sparsely wooded, dry or wet grasslands and wide rivers with sand and gravel bars.
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Topographical characteristics are braided streams, bushland, gravel bars, open sandy islands, rock outcrops, and sand bars.
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These glaciers continually provide sediment such as silt and gravel to the rivers, creating sand and gravel bars.
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Camping is, however, permitted on gravel bars and sand bars along the river.
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The topography features braided streams, bushland, gravel bars, open sandy islands, rock outcrops, and sand bars.
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There are minimally-developed float camps along the river that are accessible by boat, and dispersed camping on gravel bars is allowed.
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It also occurs on sand and gravel bars in streams.
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Killdeer and spotted sandpipers can be seen foraging insects along the gravel bars.
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Islands, riffles, gravel bars, oxbow ponds and backwater sloughs provide support to forty-three species of fish.
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Below that, in the wildlife refuge, the river becomes even wider and deeper, with broad gravel bars.
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