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<br />GLOSSARY'< <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />alluvial deposits, alluvium -- materiel which has been trans- <br />ported by a river. <br /> <br />area (A) -- cross sectional area of .flow, drawn perpendicular <br />to the direction of flow. <br /> <br />basin -- see drainage basin. <br /> <br />basin. storage ~- the amount of water-temporarily held in a <br />catchment area. by soi 1, plants, surface ponds, and <br />bedrock. <br /> <br />cfs -- cubic feet, per second; a me{l~ure of flow of water in a <br />channel, in" terms of volume per unit time. <br /> <br />channelization -- the practice of altering the stream channels. <br /> <br />clay loam -- a soil containing sand, silt and clay in roughly <br />equal proportions, with' 28 percent sand, 37 percent silt, <br />and 35 percent clay. <br /> <br />colluvium -- weathered material on or at the bottom of a hill- <br />slope that has moved downhill hunder the influence of <br />gravity. <br /> <br />Cretaceous -- the third and latest of the periods included in <br />the Mesozoic era of geologic time, from 136 tQ 64 million <br />years before present. <br /> <br />daily discharge -- the mean discharge for a particular day. <br /> <br />dip -- the orientation of a planar secimentar"y.roc\k in t.erms of <br />the angle that it makes with a horizontal p\ane--the angle <br />.being measured perpendicular to a horizontal line on the <br />rock. <br /> <br />discharge (Q) <br />sectiona 1 <br /> <br />the volume of water flowing <br />area in a. giv~n time. <br /> <br />through a c ros s <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~ <br />"Thes',e terms were excerpte,d from the following two <br />dictionaries: <br /> <br />Ameri,can Geological Institute, 1962, Dictionary of <br />Geological Terms: Doubleday and Company, New York, 545 p. <br /> <br />Whitten, D.G.A. with Brooks,J.R.V., 1972, The Penguin <br />Dictionary of Geology: Penguin Books" Inc."Baltimore,'49~ p. <br /> <br />. <br />