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CHANNEL PATTERN [2 records]

Record 1 2019-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
CONT

River channel patterns are thought to form a morphological continuum. This continuum is two-dimensional, defined by plan features of which there are three (straight, meandering, branching), and structural levels of fluvial relief of which there are also three (floodplain, flood channel, low-water channel).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
CONT

Les variables qui permettent de distinguer les UEA [unités écologiques aquatiques] sont principalement l'environnement d'écoulement (lentique, humide, lotique, estuarien), le substrat (rocheux, argileux, semi-alluvial, alluvial), les formes alluviales (delta, cône, plaine alluviale) et les différents styles fluviaux (linéaire, rectifié, seuil-mouille, méandres, divagant, etc.).

Spanish

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Record 2 1991-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sewing Techniques and Stitching
OBS

Name of a motif to be quilted industrially.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'exécution et points de couture
OBS

Comme les courtepointes piquées industriellement à la machine reproduisent habituellement des formes simples, on peut supposer que le nom "channel" signifiant "canal" a été donné à un patron fait de lignes en longueur et ondulées, à tout le moins non droites.

Spanish

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