"dam" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- About half a million years ago, the Clearwater Valley was filled by a lake backed up by a lava dam near Hemp Creek.
- It is unknown where the water goes that escapes through the lava dam.
- The river eventually overflowed the lava dam and eroded down into it, draining the lake and forming Benham Falls.
- Most lava dams lasted for around 10,000 to 20,000 years.
- However others have proposed that the lava dams were much more ephemeral and failed catastrophically before overtopping.
- This lava dam is over 300 m (1,000 ft) in thickness and about 2 km (1.2 mi) wide where it impounds the lake.
- Thus emplaced, the shape of a lava dam resembles an elongated blob, wedged in the valley bottom.
- A lava dam created a broad shallow lake in the area of the Raft River during late Pliocene time, over one million years ago.
- Prospect Dam is a former lava dam in the Grand Canyon of Arizona, United States.
- It was the oldest and tallest of several former lava dams in the Grand Canyon.
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