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BALANCED STREAM REGIME [1 record]

Record 1 2016-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

A stream in which over a period of years, slope is delicately adjusted to provide, with the available discharge and with prevailing channel characteristics, just the velocity required for the transportation of the load supplied from the drainage basin.

OBS

The graded stream is a system in equilibrium.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Cours d'eau qui [a] apparemment atteint, sur de longs parcours, un état que l'on peut pratiquement qualifier d'équilibre entre le débit solide et le débit d'apport de sédiments.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
DEF

Curso de agua que ha alcanzado aparentemente un estado aproximado de equilibrio entre las tasas de aporte y transporte de sedimentos.

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