thalweg

• Here, seven and a quarter miles from the mouth, the stream measures about twenty yards broad, the thalweg is deep and navigable, and the water, bitumen-coloured with vegetable matter, tastes brackish. —  To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
• The fog was so dense that nothing could be seen of the general lie of the country; but the thalweg was a sufficient guide, and after due perseverance we came upon the glacičre, not many yards from that line, on the north slope of the open valley, about 4,500 feet above the sea To prevent cattle from falling into the pit, a wall has been built round the trees in which it lies. —  Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
• 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 — Volume 2
• Davidson also taught the group a few new definitions, "thalweg" being the favorite. —  The Vail Trail - All Sections
• HVOD analysis spatial heterogeneity can lead to signi fi cant underestimates was performed using data from the hypolimnetic portion of of water retention time and uncertainties in the conveyance 8 deep-water sampling locations within the Colorado River and fate of materials transported into the reservoir. thalweg of Boulder Basin from the Narrows to Hoover Dam (Fig. 2). —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows

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