Rock types are variable and for the most part individual types cannot be traced over large areas, a condition typical of fluvial environments.
As can be interpreted from foregoing discussions, the sediments deposited in the Fossil Basin vary from stream and flood-plain fluvialto lacustrine.
The presence of palms in the lake sediments and of bones of primates and crocodiles in both the lacustrine and fluvial sediments indicate a heavily forested, tropical environment.
The Green River Formation can be thought of as a gigantic lens of lacustrine sediments enclosed in thefluvial Wasatch Formation.
When the lake appeared, lacustrine sediments, marlstone, and shale were deposited in the lake, while around the periphery of the basin, fluvial sediments continued to accumulate.
Fluvial sediments are those transported and deposited by stream action.
Succession of Epochs, Glacial and Fluvial Deposits, and Eastern Provinces and Middle and Southern Epochs.
Fluvial and lacustrine Delaware, Susquehanna, deposits of this time, Potomac, and other with those of the first rivers.
The most extensive are the fluvialdeposits accumulated as valley fill throughout the entire Andean realm.
The tide runs rapidly on the Hugli, and produces a remarkable example of the fluvial phenomenon known as a "bore.
The supervising and keeping open of the Nadia rivers, therefore, forms one of the great tasks of fluvial engineering in Bengal.
The remaining surfaces of arid lands are composed of exposed bedrock outcrops, desert soils, and fluvial deposits including alluvial fans, playas, desert lakes, and oases.
Columbia in 1981, recorded images that show buried fluvial topography, faults, and intrusive bodies otherwise concealed beneath sand sheets and dunes of the Western Desert in Egypt and the Sudan.
The spot so enclosed had a quiet beauty that would have been holy in days gone by when the mind of man peopled such solitudes with fluvial deities.
Notwithstanding the eminent capabilities of steam when applied to coast navigation, or to the fluvialnavigation of the interior, it has failed to make the same triumphs in the carriage of freights and passengers upon the ocean.
From the point of view of fluvial equity, there is no doubt that considerable wrong has been done to the River Paraguay in the way of nomenclature.
In some respects this fluvialsystem would lend itself to the improvements of the engineer, and might perform for the region which it waters services such as the Nile renders for Egypt, instead of being, as it is, largely a destructive agent.
In Colombia, as described elsewhere, navigation is possible by small craft from the fluvial system of the Amazon to that of the Orinoco, a remarkable hydrographic condition.
Boats and barges may reach the Andes, whose beautiful landscape forms the water-parting of this remarkable fluvial system.
It is, in a sense, an island, by reason of the union of the Orinoco and Amazon fluvialsystems by the Casiquiare.
The enormous quantity of water of this great fluvial system, pouring into the Plate, give that estuary a greater volume than the great Mississippi.
Each fluvialflood Their gathering fleets and floating batteries load, Close their black sails, debark the amphibious host, And with their moony anchors fang the coast.
From fluvial glades that thro my cantons run, From those rich mounds that mask the falling sun.
Such fluvial plains of gravel and sand constitute the valley trains which extend beyond the unstratified glacial drift in many of the valleys of the United States.
A glance at the map will show the extensive fluvial system of Brazil.
Honduras has the finestfluvial system in Central America.
To meet the occasional drought and the danger of sudden floods in this fluvial zone, which is entirely the domain of the torrent, there is need of constant care and ingenuity.
Beyond the stream was the direction he wished to go to reach the road, but this fluvial barrier stopped his progress; and he saw no other course, if he wished to attain his goal, than to swim the flood.
The four provinces known as Upper Peru are shut in by mountain ranges, and have no fluvial communication with either ocean.
It is reproduced on a larger scale in the long, narrow counties ranged along the lower St. Lawrence, whose shape points to the old fluvial nuclei of settlement.
Moreover, French men of letters, by the distribution of their birthplaces, are essentially products of fluvial valleys and plains, rarely of upland and mountain.
Among civilized peoples fluvial settlements have been the nuclei of broad states, passing rapidly through an embryonic development to a maturity in which the old center can still be distinguished by a greater density of population.
The most interesting effect of the subsidence of the land was the creation of Reelfoot Lake, the fluvial entrance to which is from the tortuous Mississippi some forty-five miles below Hickman, Kentucky.
These men of the Stone and Metal Ages are no doubt still largely represented, not only amongst the rude hill tribes of the southern and western borderlands, but also amongst the settled and cultured lowlanders of the greatfluvial valleys.
What, then, would be the fluvial force required to move the Welcome Nugget?
From time to time we scared up a kingfisher or a summer duck, the former flying rather by vigorous impulses than by steady and patient steering with that short rudder of his, sounding his rattle along the fluvial street.
The villages are open to foreign commerce, free of duty; but at present the voice of civilized man is seldom heard, save on the main fluvial highway between Moyabamba and the Brazilian frontier.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fluvial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
