adjective
definition
Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Examples of fluvial in a Sentence
River channel confluences are ubiquitous features of all fluvial networks & represent sites of complex, three-dimensional flow & sediment dynamics.
Sediment supply, relative to fluvial transport capacity, has therefore a potentially decisive effect on the erosive power of any bedrock river.
The fluvial facies dominates the basal sediment portion that is overlain by an aeolian interval.
Relating fluvial processes (erosion, transport and deposition) to the formation of fluvial landforms.
Welcome to this Level 2/3 undergraduate module on fluvial geomorphology.
These include glacial, fluvial and a mixed group of periglacial deposits known as " Head "
However there have been few studies which have actively attempted to calibrate bedrock incision experimentally, in a fluvial type setting.
Shackley (1974) emphasized flake scar ridge (arête) abrasion as a product of fluvial transport.
Originally conquered by the fluvial deposits from the sea, it now stretches out as a vast dead level, in which the rivers find their velocity checked, and their current no longer able to carry along the silt which they have brought down from northern India.
It is the central fluvial artery of Brazil, running from south to north for a distance of about 150o m.
These consisted of two piers forming a seaward prolongation of the fluvial channel, begun in 1858 and completed in 1861.
Although essentially a fluvial district, it does not possess any river navigable throughout the year by boats of 4 tons burden.
Along the whole northern rim of Bosnia, as also in the fluvial and Karst valleys (poljes), are found diluvial and alluvial formations, interrupted at one place by an isolated granite layer.
The careful study of these fluvial formations is likely to throw much light on the history of the deformative movements and changes in topography in the United States during the late stages of geological history.
This is one of the most important fluvial systems of Brazil, but its economic value is impaired by the great waterfalls of Guayra, or Sete Quedas, and Uribu-punga, and by the rapids and waterfalls in the majority of its affluents near their junction with the main stream.
But the relief of the tableland has been wholly changed by fluvial action.