avulse
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Geographers had already noticed that rivers tend to avulse at the foot of mountains, where slopes change dramatically and sediment settles out, silting up the bed.
From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021
“Rivers are perturbed all the time but only avulse if they are set up by enough deposition,” he says.
From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021
“We realized this spectacular archive recorded a major event that reorganized the delta’s water pathways,” Chamberlain says, adding that the delta’s river channel probably hasn’t avulsed since then.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 17, 2024
The real world agrees: The Mississippi has avulsed in central Louisiana about once every 1400 years, creating large delta lobes across the Gulf Coast.
From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021
In the last seven thousand years, the river has avulsed six times, and each time it has set about laying down a new bulge of land.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
The X-ray showed that a bit of bone had avulsed from his pelvis.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2017
All the muscles attached to the upper end of the humerus are liable to be torn, and the tuberosities are frequently avulsed.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
So if an avulsing river encounters an old channel, he says, it is likely to colonize it.
From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021
For example, the vast Pantanal, in the heart of South America, is kept rich and muddy by the avulsing Taquari River.
From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021
An alternative procedure consists in avulsing segments of the vein by means of Babcock's stylet, which consists of a flexible steel rod, 30 inches in length, with acorn-shaped terminals.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
