Water use in alluvial fans refers to irrigation systems using the water resources in alluvial fans, mainly river floods and groundwater recharged by infiltration...

An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment...

on flow, alluvial diagrams are named after alluvial fans that are naturally formed by the soil deposited from streaming water. In an alluvial diagram,...

from which alluvial soil forms. A floodplain is part of the process, being the smaller area over which the rivers flood at a particular time. In contrast...

countries by irrigated land area Surface irrigation Tidal irrigation Water use in alluvial fans All pages with titles containing irrigation Snyder, R. L.; Melo-Abreu...

hundred thousand people lived in this narrow coastal strip in Vargas State. Many of these people lived atop alluvial fans formed by debris flows sourced...

conglomerates that originated as debris flows on alluvial fans and likely contain the largest accumulations of gravel in the geologic record. Breccias are similar...

upstream changes in climate and water use on hydro-ecology in the Okavango Delta, Botswana". Journal of Hydrology. Water Resources in Regional Development:...

mountains or foothills; water is more abundant in the mountains because of orographic lifting, and excavation in the alluvial fan is relatively easy. The...

fresh water in the world is groundwater. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water. The...

portions of alluvial fans and extend to inland sabkhas or dry lakes. In basin and range topography, wadis trend along basin axes at the terminus of fans. Permanent...

are typically placed in alluvial rivers perpendicular, or at an angle, to the bank of the channel or the revetment, and are used widely along coastlines...

Instead, it discharges into the Okavango Delta or Okavango Alluvial Fan, in an endorheic basin in the Kalahari Desert. The Cuito River is a major tributary...

initial suspension in air or water. Sedimentation may pertain to objects of various sizes, ranging from large rocks in flowing water, to suspensions of...

At the canyon mouth water spreads out and deposits its sediment load, gradually building up a large wedge-shaped alluvial fan that extends down toward...

alluvial fans, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program. Locations of these fans are indicated in the previous image. Small, well-formed alluvial fan,...

). Study on the relation between groundwater and surface water in Toyohiro-gawa alluvial fan, Hokkaido, Japan. Groundwater response to changing climate...

surrounding ecoregions. Many of the alluvial valleys bordering the Snake River are used for agriculture. Where irrigation water and soil depth are sufficient...

levees and higher parts in marine landscapes were recognized in prehistoric times. Fluvisols are found on alluvial plains, river fans, valleys and tidal marshes...

also occur inland, on alluvial fans, or where a tributary stream bifurcates as it nears its confluence with a larger stream. In some cases, a minor distributary...

"Sedimentology and climatic environment of alluvial fans in the martian Saheki crater and a comparison with terrestrial fans in the Atacama Desert" (PDF). Icarus...

In oceanography and limnology, the sediment–water interface is the boundary between bed sediment and the overlying water column. The term usually refers...

Point bars Alluvial fans Braided rivers Oxbow lakes Levees Waterfalls Rivers and streams carry sediment in their flows. This sediment can be in a variety...

rounded rock fragments of pebble and cobble size. They typically top alluvial fans. Desert varnish collects on the exposed surface rocks over time. Geologists...

slopes and alluvial fans. At its maximum, when Lake Bonneville was more than 980 ft (300 m) deep and almost 20,000 sq mi (51,000 km2) in surface area...

original on 9 March 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013. "Irrigation in the alluvial fan of Garmsar, Iran" (PDF). International Institute for Land Reclamation...

The sagebrush zone occurs on the lower mountain slopes, alluvial fans, and bajadas. Areas in this zone that have wetter and less saline soils are dominated...

wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles. For example, sand and silt can be carried in suspension in river water and on...

Washiba in the Hida Mountains and carves the deep valley known as the Kurobe Gorge. It comes out of the mountains at Unazuki and forms an alluvial fan which...

redirect targets – type of Fluvial deposit. Caused by moving water in a fan shape (Alluvial Fan) and containing mostly impermeable and nonporous sediments...