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TRIBUTARY VALLEY [6 records]

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Record 1 2013-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geographical Names
OBS

The Canadian Northwest includes Yukon Territory and the Mackenzie Valley, except for the Arctic Coast.... It extends farther south and includes the region tributary to the Alaska Highway in northern British Columbia and [areas] in northern Alberta.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géographiques
DEF

Région strictement localisée à l'extrême nord-ouest du Canada.

OBS

Expression logique mais artificielle car les populations qui résident d'un côté au Yukon et de l'autre au Mackenzie ne se voient pas appartenir à une même région.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A tributary valley that joins a main valley where the latter has been deepened, usually by glacial erosion, resulting in a steep drop from the floor of the tributary valley to the floor of the main valley.

OBS

In the Pays de Caux, Normandy, France a valleuse is a depression in the land surface of the plateau which permits access to the sea. The word is peculiar to the Pays de Caux but the feature is not ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Vallée sèche, creusée en pays crayeux et calcaire par un cours d'eau disparu en profondeur, et tronquée par recul de la falaise, de sorte qu'elle débouche parfois à plusieurs dizaines de mètres au-dessus du niveau de la mer [...]

OBS

valleuse : pays de Caux [Normandie].

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
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Record 3 2003-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Glaciology
DEF

A glacial valley whose mouth is at a relatively high level on the steep side of a larger glacial valley.

OBS

The larger valley was eroded by a trunk glacier and the smaller one by a tributary glacier, and the discordance of level of their floors, as well as their difference is due to the greater erosive power of the trunk glacier.

OBS

hanging valley: term used by Parks Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Glaciologie
OBS

vallée suspendue : terme en usage à Parcs Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
  • Glaciología
DEF

Valle formado por un glaciar tributario en su marcha hacia el glaciar principal y que puede verse una vez desaparecido en glaciar.

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Record 4 1997-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

also Meshed. City, capital of Khorasan province, Iran; situated in the valley of a tributary of the Hari Rud.

Key term(s)
  • Meshed

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

ou Machhad, ville d'Iran, chef-lieu de province du Khorasan, sur la Kachaf Rud, affluent du Hari Rud.

Key term(s)
  • Machad

Spanish

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Record 5 1991-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glaciology
DEF

A glacier composed of two or more individual valley glaciers emanating from tributary valleys.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Glaciologie
DEF

Glacier composé d'au moins deux glaciers individuels provenant de vallées tributaires.

Spanish

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Record 6 1987-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geographical Names
OBS

The(...) clay valleys of the Montreal plain are former tributary and estuarine channels and are presently occupied by misfit streams(the Huron-Salvail Valley)

Key term(s)
  • Huron-Salvail

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géographiques
OBS

Dans la plaine de Montréal, les bras d'estuaire régressifs ont laissé des chenaux (..) empruntés maintenant par des ruisseaux insignifiants (la vallée Huron-Salvail).

Spanish

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