Definition of riverbed
:the channel occupied by a river
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The giant and the tiny were entombed together in the riverbed, forming what is now a spectacular series of mass graves in northwestern Madagascar.
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The Missouri River rock has been made accessible by Capital Sand Co., which is using a new dredging process in old riverbed to get its sand.
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Guided by Lisie Kitchel, a state Department of Natural Resources conservation biologist and mussel expert, the group was slowly scouring the riverbed for mussels.
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A battle between two New York billionaires has been holding up a plan to replace a crumbling pier on Manhattan’s Hudson River waterfront with an avant-garde park on pilings rising above the riverbed.
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A battle between two New York billionaires has been holding up a plan to replace a crumbling pier on Manhattan’s Hudson River waterfront with an avant-garde park on pilings rising above the riverbed.
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The $42 million-a-year, five-year Stormwater Management Program is designed to repair eroding hillsides and riverbeds, and to clear debris and sediment obstructions from streams, dams and culverts in the region.
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By 1980, 75 percent of the entire run of salmon and steelhead was bred and born not in native riverbeds, but in hatcheries.
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Beach-quality sand taken from the riverbed will be trucked straight to Oceanside’s Buccaneer Beach and to city beaches between Tyson and Wisconsin streets.
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