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levees

 Type(s): Concept

Alternative label (1)

  • berms
  • dikes (manmade)
  • embankments
  • revetments

Preferred label (1)

  • levees

Associations (6)

 

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Internal Occurrences (1)

  • Definition
    • Artificial embankments built along the bank of a watercourse or an arm of the sea, to protect land from inundation or to confine streamflow to its channel. [Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]
  
Object id: 1124
Item identifier(s):
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