distributary in English

noun
1
a branch of a river that does not return to the main stream after leaving it (as in a delta).
The water mass consists of tiny hilly streams, winding seasonal creeks, muddy canals, some truly magnificent rivers and their tributaries and distributaries .

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1. A distributary overflows its banks.

2. Coal measttres distribution has a complementary relationship with distributary channel.

3. The distributary deposits is the reservoir sands.

4. High sinuosity distributary sands micro-facies, whose sands body is relatively large, and the distributary channel sands body is the product of laterally aggradational deposit.

5. Detection distributing is one kind of important criminal prosecution distributary.

6. So, the question of personal deposits distributary becomes the urgent task facing us.

7. A case study is made for low sinuosity of distributary channel sand body.

8. It lies along the Bonny River (an eastern distributary of the Niger River) 6 …

9. Prograding bar - finger sand bodies are over - ridden by distributary channels as the shoreline retreats.

10. Aim To analyze the interlayer of the underwater distributary channel using the well log curve.

11. As the distributary - mouth area progrades, these bar sands develop into the bar - finger sands.

12. Multi - set of fan - delta , distributary channel and delta - front sand bodies of Jurassic and Cretaceous are favorible reservoirs.

13. Distributary plain facies sands body: . Meandering sands micro-facies, which represents large low sinuosity meandering disposition, and the channel sands is very large.

14. We should establish distributary detention system, separated arresting system, judicial investigation system to detention and separated system of investigation organs and detention house.

15. Microfacies of the delta front include subaqueous distributary channel, channel mouth bar, distal bar, subaqueous levee, frontal sheet sand, and interdistributary bay.

16. The North Channel is the north distributary of the second order bifurcation and one of the Changjiang Estuary's main channels into the sea.

17. 27 The favourable reservoir sandstones in these gas pools may broadly be assigned to the deltaic front channel mouth bar, deltaic plain distributary channel bar and fluvial channel bar microfacies.

18. Five sedimentary microfacies including underground river distributary, debouch bar, frontal sheet sand, sand-shale alternating layer, front fan-delta-deep water lake deposits are identified.

19. Cuspate deltaic sands micro-facies, which formed at the time of powerful wave action, the continuity of marine distributary channel is bad, and distributes in cuspate shape.

20. The Jurassic of Junggar basin is a river delta sedimentary system, with subaqueous distributary channel and mouth bar sand body developed in the hinterland of Junggar basin.

21. Sand bodies served as reservoirs in the study area are mainly underwater distributary channel sands, channel-mouth bar sands, front sheet bar sands and far bar sands.

22. The favourable reservoir sandstones in these gas pools may broadly be assigned to the deltaic front channel mouth bar, deltaic plain distributary channel bar and fluvial channel bar microfacies.

23. Delta Barrages are designed to regulate the upstream level but not the flow of water in the two distributary branches of the Nile, so that when the river is low, water can still flow into irrigation canals

24. Crevasse channels often bifurcate into simple or complex distributary systems that discharge into flood-basin lakes or wetlands (Pérez-Arlucea and Smith, 1999; Smith and Pérez-Arlucea, 1994; Smith et al., 1989).The linear to lobate accumulation of sediment surrounding

25. Due to its low input of coarse sediment, Upper Waterfowl Lake, in Banff Park, Alberta, has developed a delta atypical of lacustrine deltas in this high mountain region: lack of foresets, vertically aggrading stable distributary channels, and a surface composed of mostly fine-grained floodplain materials.