wadi
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A series of bridges had crossed the wadi, connecting the port area with the western side of the city.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2023
An academic published a paper in 2022 said that repeated flooding threatened the dams built in a wadi, a usually dry riverbed, above the city and urged immediate maintenance.
From Reuters • Sep. 13, 2023
One last stretch of exposed terrain remained, a shallow wadi we had crossed to get to Devon Hill.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2012
“It shows a very strong sensitivity to the geology in the choice of colors for the rock, and also in the little colored spots that represent the gravel on the wadi floor,” Harrell said.
From National Geographic
The convoy, the motors growling their protests of the hard going even here at the gravel bottomed wadi river bed, made its way toward them at a pace of approximately twenty kilometers per hour.
From Black Man's Burden by Reynolds, Mack
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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