ephemeral stream

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ephemeral
adjective
uk
/ɪˈfem.ər.əl/us
/ɪˈfem.ɚ.əl/
lasting for only a ...
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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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In many cases, this involves diverting ephemeral streams from hillsides and road culverts onto agricultural land.
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Archaeologists presume that the channels of ephemeral streams, or the banks of permanent streams, became one of the preferred activity locales.
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They are drained by a network of ephemeral streams which retain water through the dry season in small, scattered pools.
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Furthermore, it is sometimes hard to state exactly where a river begins, especially rivers that are formed by ephemeral streams, swamps, or changing lakes.
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Alluvial or colluvial formations emerge from minor valleys of small ephemeral streams that drain the interfluves of major valleys.
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Reservoirs, a few glacial rock-basin lakes, many springs, and high gradient intermittent and ephemeral streams occur.
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The vegetation is savanna woodland dissected by ephemeral streams with a small number of permanent or semi-permanent waterholes.
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The people grew crops on the floodplains below, planting in areas moistened by overflow from the rivers or near ephemeral streams.
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It is incised by mainly dry riverbeds formed by ephemeral streams which flow during the spring rains.
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The island has only small, ephemeral streams draining the land area, but no major rivers.
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Intermittent or ephemeral streams are those that run dry repeatedly, either seasonally or soon after rain stops.
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Drainage is by ephemeral streams directly into the ocean.
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One of the most pronounced effects of urban runoff is on watercourses that historically contained little or no water during dry weather periods (often called "ephemeral streams").
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Once winter rains have soaked the soil and filled ephemeral streams, both males and females migrate up to 2 km to breeding ponds that exist only in winter.
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There is a residual surface runoff of fresh water into the lake from the sporadic rainfall from ephemeral streams; there are no defined streams in the catchment.
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