The lower reaches of most streams have aggraded; here, enough gravel has accumulated to promote subsurface flow, except during and immediately after rainfall. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
In this way each part of the fan is aggraded and its symmetric form is preserved. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Valley trains are deposits of stratified drift with which river valleys have been aggraded. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
When enough water starts moving, it can scour the aggraded riverbeds, sweeping surplus sediment at frightening speeds. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Several debris flows have aggraded the debris fan, including a large one that deposited the prominent levee at right between 1940 and 1965. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Valleys aggraded with fine waste form well-nigh level plains over which streams wind from side to side of a direct course in symmetric bends known as meanders, from the name of a winding river of Asia Minor. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
We may conceive, then, of the Connecticut valley and the larger trough to the southwest as basins gradually sinking at a rate perhaps no faster than that of the New Jersey coast to-day, and as gradually aggraded by streams from the neighboring uplands. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
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