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• Distributary — A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. They are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributary is a… …   Wikipedia

• distributary —    [ streams ]     a) A divergent stream flowing away from the main stream and not returning to it, as in a delta or on a flood plain. It may be produced by stream deposition choking the original channel.     b) One of the channels of a braided… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• distributary —   a stream which splits away from the main channel and never rejoins it. Common across deltas as they are so close to the sea that the channel has no space to find its way back. When a channel does rejoin the main stream, it is braided …   Geography glossary

• distributary — 1) a diverging stream which does not return to the main stream but into another water body 2) a channel taking water from a canal for irrigation …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• distributary — noun A branch of a river delta; a channel that distributes a rivers waters into the sea, as with the Atchafalaya River of the Mississippi. Ant: tributary …   Wiktionary

• Multnomah Channel — 1937 Map of Multnomah Channel between Columbia River Highway and Sauvie Island …   Wikipedia

• Mahakam River — The Mahakam River is in Indonesia. It flows 980 km from the district of Long Apari in the highlands of Borneo, to its mouth at the Makassar Strait. The city of Samarinda, the provincial capital of East Kalimantan, lies along the river… …   Wikipedia

• Okavango Basin — The Okavango Basin is an endorheic basin in southwestern Africa, which extends across portions of Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The basin covers an area of 721,000 square kilometers. The Okavango River is the chief stream in the basin.… …   Wikipedia

• petroleum — petroleous, adj. /peuh troh lee euhm/, n. an oily, thick, flammable, usually dark colored liquid that is a form of bitumen or a mixture of various hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in various parts of the world and commonly obtained by drilling:… …   Universalium

• Chinde — ▪ Mozambique       town, central Mozambique. Located on the Chinde River, a distributary channel of the Zambezi delta, it exports sugar and copra and is an important fishing centre. Important originally as a British free trade area (1891) for… …   Universalium

• Club der Visionaere — The Club der Visionaere is a bar in Treptow Köpenick, the biggest borough in Berlin. Situated at a distributary channel for flood water in a former boathouse and opposing the border of Friedrichshain Kreuzberg, it came to fame for its focus… …   Wikipedia