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distributary

NOUN
  1. a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it

How To Use distributary In A Sentence

  • Although the Niger presents a zoogeographic barrier to some degree, the situation in reality is far more complex since the narrower distributary delta channels allow species to move from one side of the Niger River to the other. Niger Delta swamp forests
  • These intervals possibly represent signatures of distributary channels in a coastal-plain environment.
  • A large tract of land was inundated following a 20-foot breach in the Pai distributary near Anandpur Jharot village, about 10 km from here, last evening.
  • These cycles are interpreted as distributary mouth bars formed during a brief lowstand period.
  • Flows may have been storm-triggered or represent hyperpycnal underflows sourced from deltaic distributary channels, indicating the proximity of the coastline.
  • Within the distributary channel the relatively static nature of the saline wedge inhibits seaward bedload transport.
  • Currently, it has sought to divert more of its flow to the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, into the Atchafalaya Basin, the largest swamp in the United States. Archive 2010-08-01
  • The Sanctuary is in the basin of the brackish Djoudj bayou (distributary or marigot) between the main river channel to the north and the Gorom bayou to the south. Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Senegal
  • The distributary channels and alluvial fans at the mouths of the Flinders, Mitchell, Gilbert, Leichardt, McArthur, and Roper Rivers have extended the seaward edge of the plains. Carpentaria tropical savanna
  • The environment is interpreted as a dominantly subaqueous delta top, similar to the modern Mississippi but with meandering distributary channels.
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