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The seven forests are on old levee ridges associated with past distributaries of the Mississippi River.
It is the artery that provides life itself, as do its tributaries and distributaries, whether irrigation systems or natural deltas.
Their distributaries shifted to a more efficient course through what is now the main stem of the Mississippi, downstream from New Orleans.
The regular splitting and shifting of distributaries in the delta plain is caused by bars that are formed at the river mouth.
These rivers and their thousands of distributaries shape the destiny of Bangladesh's 147 million people.
It includes lands bordering the Middle Channel, one of the principal distributaries of the Mackenzie Delta.
The natural or controlled fall is based on the use of areas flooded by River Senegal, its tributaries and distributaries.
The Vagetikona project that was taken up two decades ago is a fallout of Gunjana falls and one of its distributaries flows to Kodur town as Gunajaneru.
Crisscrossed by the distributaries of numerous rivers, the area supports the breeding and fattening of cattle.
The river's basin is a low, filled arm of the Gulf of Thailand that is seamed with numerous distributaries.
The Indus delta has elongated protruding distributaries and low sandy beaches.
The lack of rainfall is obviated to a degree by a well-developed irrigation system based upon a series of distributaries running from the Lower Swat Canal.
The water mass consists of tiny hilly streams, winding seasonal creeks, muddy canals, some truly magnificent rivers and their tributaries and distributaries.
It begins diverging northeast of Dongguan into many distributaries, including the Dongguan Shuidao.
Includes river distributaries, including those in deltas.
Traversed by innumerable distributaries, the Ganges delta is an ill-drained region, and the western part within Indian territory has become moribund because of shifts in the channels of the Ganges.
Major distributaries of the Xi include Donghui Shuidao, Jiya Shuidao, Hutiaomen Shuidao, Yinzhou Hu, and the main branch of the Xi Jiang.
Senior Minister said that all the water distributaries would be cemented for provision of irrigation water to the farmers located at the tail end.
From here the two main distributaries are Tanzhou Shuidao and Shunde Shuidao which form multiple mouths along the west side of the Pearl River's estuary.
Thereafter, the Meuse split near Heusden into two main distributaries, one flowing north to join the Merwede, and one flowing directly to the sea.
Examples from Classical Literature
Like other deltaic distributaries, they are subject to sudden changes in their channels, and to constant silting up.
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