ephemeral stream in a sentence
Examples
- The people grew crops on the floodplains below their towns, planting in areas moistened by overflow from the rivers or near ephemeral streams.
- It said ephemeral streams, those that flow as a result of snow melt or rain, could be buried by the waste, a practice called valley fills.
- In 2006, Acterra received a grant from the California Coastal Conservancy to ephemeral stream was re-established and planted with thousands of native plant species along the banks.
- Like the Stephanian sediments, they were deposited as alluvial ( as fans and in ephemeral streams ) and lacustrine sediments within transtensive basins of the Variscan orogen.
- The Ruaha River flows through the park and gets flooded during the rainy season, otherwise remaining an ephemeral stream with ponds, sand and rocky river bed and banks.
- Water in an ephemeral stream can be seen from the overlook and occasionally at six other places within this sink, based on the season and recent precipitation events.
- The western spotted frog ( " Heleioporus albopunctatus " ) digs a burrow beside a river or in the bed of an ephemeral stream and regularly emerges to forage.
- A number of ephemeral streams, in Arabic called wadis, flow into the Jordan River or Dead Sea through the West Bank, including Wadi Og, Wadi Fa'rah and Wadi Qelt.
- Examples of ephemeral streams are the Luni river in Rajasthan, India, Ugab River in Southern Africa, and a number of small ephemeral watercourses that drain Talak in northern Niger.
- One of the most pronounced effects of urban runoff is on watercourses that historically contained little or no water during dry weather periods ( often called " ephemeral streams " ).