sheet wash

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• sheet erosion — noun Relatively even erosion of a layer of soil without channel formation; generally takes place on sloping land. Syn: sheet wash …   Wiktionary

• sheet — 01. The teacher handed out a bunch of [sheets] of lined paper for their writing test. 02. He always cheats on exams; he writes the answers on a [sheet] of paper that he hides in his shirt. 03. A 1 month old human fetus is no heavier than an… …   Grammatical examples in English

• sheet erosion — Geol. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams. Also called sheet flood erosion /sheet flud /. [1915 20] * * * Detachment of soil particles by raindrop impact and their removal downslope by water flowing overland as a sheet… …   Universalium

• Indian Bend Wash Area — The Indian Bend Wash area is a Superfund cleanup site in Scottsdale and Tempe, Arizona. It was declared a Superfund site in 1983 after industrial solvents were discovered to have contaminated the groundwater in an appropximately… …   Wikipedia

• Street Sheet Canada — is a street newspaper founded in 1994 by Rodney Graham. The street paper is in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The paper is available in Winnipeg, and was available in Saskatoon, and Regina but no more. It is not connected with Street Sheet in San… …   Wikipedia

• slope wash — noun 1. : sheet erosion 2. : earth material transported by sheet erosion …   Useful english dictionary

• Stream — For other uses, see Stream (disambiguation). Rivulet redirects here. For the moth, see Rivulet (moth). Butchers Creek, Omeo, Victoria, Australia. A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on i …   Wikipedia

• ARIDE (DOMAINE) — Le domaine aride se définit à partir de critères climatiques: il correspond aux régions du globe caractérisées par un bilan hydrique déficitaire résultant, pour l’essentiel, de l’insuffisance des précipitations par rapport aux prélèvements de… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• ARÉISME — Le terme d’aréisme, qui signifie «sans rivière», introduit dans le vocabulaire géographique par E. de Martonne en 1926, s’applique aux régions à la surface desquelles «l’écoulement est pratiquement nul». L’absence d’écoulement a de profondes… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• head slope —    [ geomorphology ]    A geomorphic component of hills consisting of a laterally concave area of a hillside, especially at the head of a drainageway, resulting in converging overland water flow (e.g., sheet wash); head slopes are dominated by… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• nose slope —    [ geomorphology ]    A geomorphic component of hills consisting of the projecting end (laterally convex area) of a hillside, resulting in predominantly divergent overland water flow (e.g., sheet wash); contour lines generally form convex… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms