Sentences with phrase «maps of a river»

Nittrouer and lead paper author Hongbo Ma, also of Rice University, took sediment samples and created a 3 - D map of the river bottom to create what they call a «universal sediment transport formula.»

The team first compiled a map of river networks for Earth, Mars, and Titan.

Scientists now have well - resolved maps of river networks and topography on both Earth and Mars, along with a growing understanding of their respective histories.

(It's actually a map of the rivers in Colombia contorted to fit along the wall, floor and ceiling.)

Data is not just for the internet giants; using remote laser - sensing technology, it can generate lovely maps of a river's long - past history too.

Our maps of the river bottom reveal a fascinating record of human activities within the Hudson Valley over the past several hundred years.

Not exact matches

This animated map shows the scale of the Mississippi River and its drainage system in perspective.

In one of the projects designed by PBS Education, students can view a guided tour of various French explorers in the 17th Century that helped map out North America's diverse waterways, like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

On the two maps above, you'll see that the project boundaries, from the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River through to the Connors Road footbridge encompass the entire legacy creek bed, with the exception of small areas on the north side of 98th avenue.

Superimposing the Mississippi River upon a map of Brazil he would notice that it flows from north to south.

Various maps of the world may show its mineral resources, its mountains and rivers, or its national boundaries.

Mass Audubon and our partners are working in the Taunton River Watershed to map green infrastructure resources, develop case studies that highlight the benefits of protecting them, and create a training program for local communities within the watershed.

The facility will feature outdoor exhibit stations as well as indoor educational space that includes classrooms, a river aquarium, an interactive wall map of the DuPage River watershed and a focal point cistern where roof water is recycled for use in the nature center's restrriver aquarium, an interactive wall map of the DuPage River watershed and a focal point cistern where roof water is recycled for use in the nature center's restrRiver watershed and a focal point cistern where roof water is recycled for use in the nature center's restrooms.

The lobby of the conservation center offers interpretive exhibits including a large 3 - D model of the entire sanctuary and a wall - to - ceiling map of the Blackstone River watershed.

But massive irrigation programmes begun during the Soviet era diverted water from the rivers that feed it, reducing the lake's volume to just 10 per cent of what it had been and leaving large areas dry (see map).

To fill in the maps, in 2009 representatives of the Lima - based Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin, or COICA, asked researchers at the Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to help them estimate the carbon in the indigenous forests of the Amazon region.

From rock - carved maps of Idaho's Snake River, to hand - drawn and painted Ptolemaic world maps predating the discovery of the Americas, to Landsat satellite images of the Great Wall of China, this colorfully illustrated history shows how maps for cities, subways, weather, and even «moral statistics,» such as crime and poverty have helped people navigate Earth — and conquer large parts of it too.

Combining data on precipitation, topography, habitat changes, dam construction, and pollution, the researchers created detailed maps of the threats to rivers around the world.

Map showing the Nile River delta with a sea level rise of 1 meter (dark blue) and urban areas (hatched) courtesy of Center for International Earth Science Information Network / Columbia University

But environmentalists fear changed seasonal flows of the river will destroy the river's fisheries, one of the region's most important sources of food (see Map).

«FEMA creates a flat map from the river side of things and a flat map from the storm surge side of things, and they just overlay them, which assumes that these two things are completely independent.

«Mapping the rock engravings represents a major step towards an enhanced understanding of the role of the Orinoco River in mediating the formation of pre-Conquest social networks throughout northern South America.»

Lead author Dr Robert Holland, also from the University's Centre for Biological Sciences, said: «Based on mapping patterns of freshwater consumption associated with energy sectors at subnational scales, our analysis also reveals that pressure on freshwater resources associated with energy production happens in a number of freshwater scarce river basins globally.

Hundreds of pages of plans, maps and charts detailed the construction of a state - of - the - art eco-city called Dongtan on China's Chongming Island, at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The image above, created with new high - resolution satellite mapping techniques, shows the spread of gold mining along the Madre de Dios River between 1999 and 2012.

After more than a year of data collection, analysis and mapping, the University of Georgia River Basin Center and the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute recently published a comprehensive survey of Southeastern watersheds and the diverse aquatic wildlife that live in these freshwater ecosystems.

They then superimposed maps of each planetary body's river networks, onto their respective topographies, and marked every river that appeared to flow downhill.

For the hydrological modelling of the Thames river catchment done at CEH we showed that the changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation caused higher peak 30 - day river flow, while flood risk mapping revealed a small increase in flood risk for properties in the Thames catchment.

By mapping the distribution of magnetofossils and the PETM clay, Kopp et al. (2009) found support for an Appalachian - fed, Amazon - like river system located around the modern Potomac or Susquehanna rivers.

So you can see the gaps between your quadriceps muscles, and your forearms look like a map of streams and rivers?

It's kind of like an overhead map and you choose where to lay out the track; across rivers, over mountains, in forests, in a little town.»

For example, most of the southern and central portions of the map are made up of deserts and plains with winding rivers and small islands.

The first of these maps, Rostov, is a large scale six player map based around a frozen river.

He has also appeared in Sneakers with Robert Redford, The River Wild with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, L.A. Confidential with Russell Crowe, The Firm with Tom Cruise, Lost in Yonkers with Richard Dreyfuss, A Map of the World with Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore, as well as a wide and diverse mix of characters in several of maverick filmmaker John Sayles» films.

Main - OS Map skills on the two sites of the river and surrounding area WITH ANSWERS.

This worksheets helps students to produce a map with the main cities and physical features of Russia, including rivers and mountain ranges

In the group activity, children are then challenged to match eight features of river systems to photos, satellite images and maps.

To help students, prepare ahead of time by using the internet to find and print separate maps of Florida's rivers, cities and topography.

With that caveat, the map above shows that demand is generally strongest for schools west of the Anacostia River.

Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom and named a Richard & Judy Book Club selection — the only work of nonfiction on the 2008 list — Blood River is the harrowing and audacious story of Tim Butcher's journey in the Congo and his retracing of renowned explorer H. M. Stanley's famous 1874 expedition in which he mapped the Congo River.

Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, her house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland.

In 1789, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie mapped out his journey along the river that would one day bear his name, planning to bring along fellow fur traders, indigenous guides and plenty of pemmican, a condensed food composed of protein, fat and dried fruit.

Click any of the numbers underneath to see photos (we thought this a particularly fine image) Robert and Jean set up home in the Mallee, a district in far north - western Victoria, south of the Murray River (the state of Victoria is in the south - east of Australia, see map).

We never thought of the river as anything but ours, though its name on maps was Dniester.

In 2016, Brian Castner, writer and certified river guide, took the same trip with a GPS, paper topographical maps, one fellow paddler for each stretch of his 1,125 - mile journey — and plenty of pemmican.

The River Parks Trail Map clearly defines segments of the River Parks paved trail system, along with facilities and points of interest.

CORRECTION: «Toliara» was always the Malagasy name for what Western map makers called «Tulear,» a sleepy village that grew into a town (ca. 1895) some kilometers to the north of the mouth of the Onilaly River.

With the map disintegrating in his hands and raindrops sliding off his nose, he suggested we hike down once again toward a section of the river that looked promising.

You can walk from the center of Salisbury, north along the River Avon, to Old Sarum (get a walking map from the tourist office).

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