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These streams appear from the crevices of the rocks running through rills and gullies.
The river is about 30 m wide here, alternating between pools and rocky-bottomed shallow rills.
Flow velocity increases, and the increased energy detaches more soil particles and transports them in tiny channels called rills.
Information on erosion includes the registration of the number of rills, gullies and accumulation zones.
After a spell of rain, small rills are filled up with garbage.
The characteristic forms of water erosion are rills and gullies.
In general, he has a predilection for the rills and runnels of the past, the tributaries of history rather than what you might consider to be its mainstreams.
Some results of erosion, like rills and gullies, are visible and therefore alarming.
A linked watercourse is planned, with cascades, ponds and rills.
If runoff continue to incise and enlarge rills, they may eventually grow to become gullies.
Generally, where water erosion rates on disturbed upland areas are greatest, rills are active.
This means that rills exhibit hydraulic physics very different from water flowing through the deeper, wider channels of streams and rivers.
The encircling Logie brook rills water down from Sherrifmuir.
Tiny streams or channels are referred to as rills or runnels.
But look closely at Maisel's images of Vicálvaro and you can see nature reasserting itself, the wind and rain forming notches and rills around the edges of the simple rectangular blocks.
Heaviside showed rills and depressions, like river washouts.
The sound of the water flowing into the fields, and the dappled light, evoked a feeling of paradise as ancient as the first Persian gardeners who created rills, or water channels, in the desert.
Where the land slopes, or where the surface of the field falls into slight natural channels, small rills are created after heavy rain or when the snow melts.
Neglected, the rills form gullies, but gullies may also follow ruts formed by wagon wheels, the trails made by livestock, or even furrows running up and down the slope.
Routine maintenance should be done annually to repair any small rills with appropriate patching and seeding before the waterway becomes damaged from concentrated flows.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The rills which drain the eastern slope carry much of this broken stuff into a small arroyo that winds to the left of the mesilla.
Where are the shadows of the solemn hills, And the fresh music of the summer rills?
Many of the rills were artificial, leading from one rice field to another.
We hear the tinkling of rills which we never detected before.
Last, there was the problem of building the airlock in one of the rills.
The Staubach, Reichenfels, are rills in comparative appearance.
Her wonder and his laughter ran together like spring rills in a thaw.
It was a place to quote Alastor in, and nothing but a bad memory prevented my affrighting the oaks and rills with declamation.
They kept along it for two days, during which, from the contribution of many rills and brooks, it gradually swelled into a small river.
There is a large fountain of these running in ten thousand rills.
When the rain ceases, the rills, brooks, and creeks run dry.
They then fell upon each other's neck and wept scalding rills down each other's spine in token of their banishment to the Realm of Ineffable Bosh.
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