thalweg

How To Use thalweg In A Sentence

• “Mombang” and the network of islands behind it, opens the gape of the Malela River, a short cut to French Point, found useful when a dangerous tide-rip is caused by the strong sea-breeze meeting the violent current of the Thalweg. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• The common boundary between the States of Arkansas and Mississippi in the Mississippi River is the thalweg, which is the middle of the main navigable channel followed as the principal course of downstream navigation.
• The dates form a kind of square with a sharp triangle to the south, upon the left bank of the thalweg, which overflows them during floods. The Land of Midian
• The line of maximum velocity or thalweg moves from side to side within a channel. Stream
• Davidson also taught the group a few new definitions, "thalweg" being the favorite. The Vail Trail - All Sections
• It has been abundantly supplied with water; in fact, the whole vein (thalweg) subtending the left bank would respond to tapping. The Land of Midian
• With quantitative thalweg evolution analysis in rivers coordinate system, the accurate thalweg of planar and vertical displacement of erosion and deposition can be calculated.
• Where a large river separates two countries or states, the boundary is commonly drawn along the thalweg, which is the continuous line of deepest soundings along the main channel of the river.
• A river adjusts to variations in seasonal changes in volumetric flow by means of its thalweg (the thread of fastest flowing water), its flood plains, and its underground flow.
• The escarpment has been shaped into numerous irregularities, indentations, and promontories, and is pierced by thalweg ravines, gorges, and rocky passages connecting the plain and plateau. Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali