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thalweg::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | contour, contour line |
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The meander arc length is the distance along the thalweg over one meander.
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The line of maximum depth, or channel, is the thalweg or thalweg line.
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The thalweg hugs the outer banks and returns to center over the riffles.
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The thalweg is almost always the line of fastest flow in any river.
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Here it descends the thalweg of the main channel until it meets the Zambezi, where it ends.
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Slowing stream bed erosion by taking advantage of a thalweg helps stabilize running water sources.
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It should be noted that the water boundaries are still set to be the original thalweg of the rivers.
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Even channels that appear to be straight have a sinuous thalweg that leads eventually to a sinuous channel.
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Thalweg is an English loan word from German.
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- The middle of the chief navigable channel of a waterway that forms the boundary line between states
- A line following the lowest points of a valley
- Thalweg , or "valley line,", in geography and fluvial geomorphology signifies the deepest continuous line along a valley or watercourse.
- The line of maximum depth in a stream. The thalweg is the part that has the maximum velocity and causes cutbanks and channel migration.
- The deepest water at any point in a river. The longitudinal line of greatest continuous depth in the river channel.
- The longitudinal line connecting points of minimum bed elevation along the stream course.
- The "channel within the channel" that carries water during low-flow conditions.
- A longitudinal profile of the lowest elevations of a sequential series of cross sections.
- (1) The lowest thread along the axial part of a valley or stream channel. (2) A subsurface, groundwater stream percolating beneath and in the general direction of a surface stream course or valley. (3) The middle, chief, or deepest part of a navigable channel or waterway.
