Sentences with phrase «stream bed»

So far more than 1,200 miles of stream beds have been buried.

When you cross over the dry stream bed you know you're almost there.

I started hiking into the woods to paint rocky stream beds in which I started to lose the horizon line.

The flow of ice streams, which account for most discharge from large ice sheets, is controlled by processes operating at the ice stream bed.

Keep water from collecting along your narrow side yard by forcing it out with a dry stream bed.

When the Curiosity rover discovered evidence of an ancient stream bed on Mars in late September, it was an important and reassuring discovery.

You can view the endemic Santa Cruz Island Scrub Jay year round: an easy stroll up the dirt road to the old stream bed at Prisoners Harbor or a rugged hike up Scorpion Canyon should provide a viewing opportunity.

Abrahams has found concentrations of up to 900 000 parts per billion of arsenic in sediment from stream beds and farm and garden soils.

Through these and several other exhibit areas, visitors can participate in diverse hands - on activities such as stream bed creation, insect collecting, tree rubbings, footprint identification, and more!

(1) A specifically Christian understanding of transcendence should be the conceptual stream bed of theology.

Oversight of pipelines is generally a federal issue, but the state has to sign off on water certifications for the path of a pipeline when it crosses stream beds and wetlands.

Pictures from Huygens show cobbles of ice that resemble water - worn rocks on a terrestrial stream bed.

Around 70 percent of city stream beds turned up the organochlorine pesticide as well.

Motherwort can be found in the wild, growing naturally along stream beds.

I discovered during my stay that painting rocky stream beds served as metaphors for Renaissance and Mannerist figure compositions that I had studied as a student in Italy and moved my work closer to abstract rhythms.

As I've said here before, it now seems in some ways that scientists are like society's elders, with awareness of past disasters absorbed from years of studying mega-droughts recorded in tree rings, or coastal destruction etched in layers of sediment, or great earthquakes recorded in displaced stream beds.

One really noteworthy residential project they worked on was the South Korean ambassador's garden, which was designed by the landscape architecture firm Lee & Associates, with a manmade stream bed, waterfall, and custom - built Korean tea house.

Data from modern ice stream beds are difficult to obtain, but where ice advanced onto continental shelves during glacial periods, extensive areas of the former bed can be imaged using modern swath sonar tools.

We live next to a usually dry stream bed (California drought) with lots and lots of stones.

Emily Lakdawalla reports on Curiosity's discovery of an ancient stream bed, and Endeavour flies over the California plant where it was built.

The Hunzas lived high in the Himalayan mountains and drank water that flowed down rocky stream beds.

This cold water is also denser which causes it to sink and run out one of the old stream beds.

A Washington State University researcher has found that the mating habits of salmon can alter the profile of stream beds, affecting the evolution of an entire watershed.

Female Steelhead construct these incubators by lying on their sides over gravel bottom and undulating rhythmically — thus creating a hydraulic force which dredges a depression in the stream bed for them.

Millennium says in the brief it has complied with all guidance from the DEC to avoid impacting high quality streams, including the use of horizontal, directional drilling which drills under the stream beds to avoid impact.

«They're changing the character of the stream bed, so when there are floods, the soil and gravel is more mobile.»

«Salmon sex linked to geological change: Fish effects on stream bed have long - term consequences.»

«When E. coli grabs onto large particles, it tends to settle out into the stream bed faster,» McDaniel explained.

This, in turn, will lower the depth and turbidity of water in mountain streams, increasing the amount of damaging ultraviolet light that reaches the stream beds.

Sediment that is light enough to be carried by water without touching the stream bed is called suspended sediment, and is visible as cloudy or milky areas of water.

So our TRD Pro convoy would've fit right in, but almost our entire drive day occurred off road and out of sight in Hana, where I found myself blitzing sideways around a hillside dirt «racetrack» doing my best Dukes of Maui impression; picking my way carefully through a rocky stream bed and walking down a treacherous 41 - degree pumice - stone grade (picture ascending a hill of black gravel that's too steep to walk up, and you've got it), among other hazards.

Commercial concentrations of gold are found in widely distributed areas: in association with ores of copper and lead, in quartz veins, in the gravel of stream beds, and with pyrites (iron sulfide).

This is quite a trek to take on since at it's maximum it measures almost 14,000 ft from peak to stream bed.

Walking up the stream bed is simple but affected greatly by the time of year you visit and recent weather.

We will swim up this stream bed and into the blue hole where you will then see white algae that hangs in suspension like giant cob webs.

Celebrating 40 years of the brand, the garden features a dry stream bed that meanders and disappears under a bridge in the distance.

A transmission station is planned to be built in a stream bed which is against regulations and will require the taking of water.

We interpret high spatial variability of bedforms as indicating a complex mechanical and hydrodynamic regime at the former ice stream beds, consistent with observations from some modern ice streams.

Huffines, a Republican state senator in Texas, blames President Barack Obama's administration for adding to rules protecting wetlands, stream beds, endangered species and clean water.