tributary - (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream secondary - being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams" 2. tributary - paying tribute; "a...
ロングマン現代英英辞典より riv‧er/ˈrɪvə$-ər/●●●S2W2noun[countable] 1anaturalandcontinuousflowof water in a long line across a country into thesea→streamthe Mississippi Riverthe River Thameson a riverThere were several boats on the river.along a riverWe went for a walk...
1,000 kilometers (600 miles) inland, is one of the river's major ports. Hankow, Hanyang and Wuchang are also important ports. The mouth at Yangtze Kiang, where the Yangtze empties into the sea, is 48 to 64 kilometers (30 to 40 miles...
Successful tributary spawning may be important for the maintenance of the mainstem San Juan River flannelmouth sucker population, but site fidelity may be maladaptive where tributaries are vulnerable to human alterations.Bonjour, Sophia M.Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USAGido,...
at the Amazon mouth46, respectively. The seasonal data discussed here (6 sets of time-series and 72 seasonal datasets) includes the mainstems and tributaries of several world’s largest rivers, i.e., the Amazon, Congo, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Yenisei, Yellow Rivers. The calculated total annual...
1.2. Study area and aims The Tigris-Euphrates river system is the most important drainage basin in SW Asia, covering an area of around 1,050,000 km2 (Hovius et al., 1998). The Euphrates is approximately 2800 km in length, rising from a source near Mount Ararat in NE Turkey, draining ...
the river.There are houses built all along the river.使用例: Word order with names of rivers•In Britain and Europe, the name usually comes after the word ‘river’. You usually say:the River Thames,the River Seine,the River Rhone,the River Nile,the River Ganges.•In the US and ...
and Illinois–Kentucky. The Ohio River contributes more water to theMississippithan does any other tributary and drains an area of 203,900 square miles (528,100 square km). The river’s valley is narrow, with an average width of less than 0.5 mile (0.8 km) betweenPittsburghandWheeling(West...
On the right bank, the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein dominates the Rhine where the Lahn tributary enters. Downstream the hills recede, the foothills of the volcanic Eifel region lying to the west and those of the Westerwald (Wester Forest) to the east. At Andernach, where the ancient Roman ...
Our approach compares the geochronology of the alluvial terraces (situated mid-stream) with the core chronostratigraphy documented downstream in the delta to evaluate temporal and spatial relationships from source to river mouth, and interpret the dynamics of sediment transport. One aim of the study ...