thalweg
IPA: θˈæɫwɪg
noun
- (geology, geography, cartography) The line that connects the lowest points in a valley or river channel, and thus the line of fastest flow or deepest water along a river’s course.
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Examples of "thalweg" in Sentences
- The border follows the deepest part or thalweg of the river.
- The thalweg is almost always the line of fastest flow in any river.
- Blues frequent the thalweg of large river systems, in heavy current.
- The line of maximum depth, or channel, is the thalweg or thalweg line.
- The thalweg hugs the outer banks and returns to center over the riffles.
- The thalweg thus marks the natural direction the profile of a watercourse.
- The meander arc length is the distance along the thalweg over one meander.
- The line of maximum velocity or thalweg moves from side to side within a channel.
- Davidson also taught the group a few new definitions, "thalweg" being the favorite.
- In this straight channel stream, bars form in the regions of the stream away from the thalweg.
- In straight streams, bar-like deposits can form in response to the thalweg (red arrows in Figure 5) and helical flow.
- For those of you who don't know, a thalweg is the last remnants of water where a fish can survive when the water has receded.
- It has been abundantly supplied with water; in fact, the whole vein (thalweg) subtending the left bank would respond to tapping.
- The dates form a kind of square with a sharp triangle to the south, upon the left bank of the thalweg, which overflows them during floods.
- Riffles, another type of coarse deposit, develop beneath the thalweg in locations where the faster flow moves vertically up in the channel.
- The escarpment has been shaped into numerous irregularities, indentations, and promontories, and is pierced by thalweg ravines, gorges, and rocky passages connecting the plain and plateau.
- Apparently, the border was agreed as being the 'thalweg' middle of the deep water channel to you & me at Algiers in 1975 but once you are out of the mouth of the Shatt-al-Arab there is no thalweg anymore.
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