Muddy floodwaters rise and spread over deltaic wetlands from main and so-called distributary channels, transporting mass and energy laterally across the delta, in essence nourishing the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists] Reference

Claudius prevented too great an ascendency in Italy of this second stranger and supplied a distributary to the current of popular superstition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

The Sanctuary is in the basin of the brackish Djoudj bayou (distributary or marigot) between the main river channel to the north and the Gorom bayou to the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Senegal] Reference

Or, as Mellaart had suggested, did they move across a distributary of the Çarsamba River to the West Mound, a smaller Chalcolithic settlement with lots of painted pottery?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference

The distributary channels and alluvial fans at the mouths of the Flinders, Mitchell, Gilbert, Leichardt, McArthur, and Roper Rivers have extended the seaward edge of the plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carpentaria tropical savanna] Reference

Currently, it has sought to divert more of its flow to the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, into the Atchafalaya Basin, the largest swamp in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-08-01] Reference

Although the Niger presents a zoogeographic barrier to some degree, the situation in reality is far more complex since the narrower distributary delta channels allow species to move from one side of the Niger River to the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Niger Delta swamp forests] Reference

The reductions in sediment discharge, as a consequence of damming, have caused a major retreat of the (formerly prograding) distributary mouths at Damietta and Rosetta where coastal defences have been installed in an attempt to arrest the retreat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Africa and coastal and marine environments] Reference

An alternative course is to leave the choice of crops to the cultivator, within limits as to total water requirements, and to work out a delivery schedule which meets the summation of these demands in each minor or distributary command from month to month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Considerable ingenuity can be exercised by the cultivators in such operations, for instance herding water-buffaloes into a distributary canal, as a portable dam, causing the upstream level to rise and break through, with major flow into a nearby drainage channel from which water flows to the fields of the perpetrators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

The capacity required of main and distributary canals during puddling in an area predominantly under paddy in the wet season is influenced both by the amount of water used per unit of area (the procedure employed on the individual plot), by the amount of time during which this operation is in progress in the command as a whole, and by the contribution of rainfall during the period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

This obsession with mimicking Silicon Valley has poisoned every distributary of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The Atchafalaya is a distributary of the Mississippi River, a channel of the river that drains into the Gulf of Mexico west of the main channel.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Earth Observatory] Reference

From Uncha Chandana to GT road, a distance of 63 kms, the old creak is being converted into Saraswati Nadi distributary with 200 cusecs capacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PunjabNewsline News] Reference

The Atchafalaya River is the major distributary of the Mississippi River, which drains 41 percent of the United States, from western New York to the Dakotas, Angelle said.    From Wordnik.com.  [theadvertiser.com -] Reference

The Pejagala river, a distributary of the major Suvernarekha river, just 500 metres away from Palasia-Sur's village in Balasore district of Orissa on India's east coast-flooded in 2005 and.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPS Inter Press Service] Reference

It has hitherto been largely irrigated by public and private inundation canals, but this form of irrigation may be superseded by the excavation of a new distributary from the Lower Jhelam Canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir] Reference

Their model takes into account boundary sedimentary composition, transport of multiple sediment fractions, and feeder channel dynamics, and provides a detailed description of the formation of delta distributary networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog] Reference

Although I haven't studied this system in any detail, it's very likely that natural avulsions of distributary channels in the delta were much more frequent pre-human influence and, as controls on the channels were installed to make agricultural development easier (e.g., human-made levees), the course of the channel became locked in place, effectively preventing avulsions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clastic Detritus] Reference

Are historic distributary channels of the river and are sometimes used by smaller ships and boats.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference

The Hooghly is a distributary of the Ganges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riddle On Grand Trunk Road: Where To Begin?] Reference