thalweg

IPA: θˈæɫwɪg

(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.

Examples of "thalweg" in Sentences

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.