Usage examples (5)

• Check dams are simple physical constructions to prevent the downcutting of runoff water in gullies.
• The Outer Nashville Basin in Kentucky contains untillable steep ridges and bluffs and cultivated terraces and floodplains along the meandering, downcutting Cumberland River.
• Geologic uplift with minimal deformation and subsequent downcutting by streams have exposed large expanses of a variety of geologic strata, each with unique physical and...
• Regulation of White River flow, in combination with the downcutting of the Mississippi River for navigation (and related wing levees and cutoffs), have altered flood...