intermittent stream

collocation in English

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intermittent
adjective
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/ˌɪn.təˈmɪt.ənt/us
/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈmɪt.ənt/
not happening regularly or continuously; stopping and starting repeatedly or with periods ...
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stream
noun[C]
uk
/striːm/us
/striːm/
water that flows naturally along a fixed route formed by a channel cut into rock or ground, usually at ...
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M3, 200 x 50 m, was bisected by a small,intermittentstreamwith small sandstone exposures, with red loamy soils lacking laterite.
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There are no rivers entering the lake and only a very smallintermittentstreamon the southeastern corner.
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Manymoon lake has neither inlet nor permanent outlet, although anintermittentstreamfeeds a wetland on the end of the southeastern bay.
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Fed by an unnamedintermittentstream, the peak time for waterflow through the cascade is during spring snowmelt.
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The lakes are connected by anintermittentstream.
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Between these mountains there is anintermittentstream.
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This flat creek bed contained, until roads and other construction obliterated them, theintermittentstreamof the creek itself and two ponds.
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Theintermittentstreamof the valley flows to the south-east.
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It is anintermittentstreamwith two perennial reaches.
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Fish predation alters benthic, but not emerging, insects across whole pools of anintermittentstream.
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An additional measurement at the middle of the dry season was not possible for comparative purposes because many intermittent streams were included in the study.
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These fanglomerates were actually deposited into a deep marine environment but against a rapidly moving fault line, which supplied anintermittentstreamof debris into the allochthonous pile.
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Olive and myrtle trees grow at the bottom of wadis,intermittentstreamvalleys, or beside gueltas and permanent or temporary waterholes.
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The semiarid steppe landscape was drained by intermittent streams and was sometimes affected by dust and sandstorms, and moisture was seasonal.
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Intermittent streams may be located closer to roosts than more permanent sources of water.
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Below the fall line, the valley widens and the uplands consist of rolling hills dissected by intermittent streams.
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The territory includes several northsouth valleys with intermittent streams (winterbournes).
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However, there are several intermittent streams which flow during periods of heavy rain.
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Along the intermittent streams are found willows, cottonwoods, and white-barked sycamores.
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