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EA:  WATERCOURSE_CHANNEL_TYPE

Status: STD 2005/06/07
Code: 1587
Concept definition: The type of trough-like depression that is normally occupied by a <WATERCOURSE>; watercourse channel type.
 
Attribute value type: ENUMERATION
Reference type: IR
Reference: [FPG]
Supplemental references:  
Enumerants (presented in a natural order)
Status Attribute label Enumerant label ▾ Concept definition Code Ref type Reference Supplemental references
STD
2005/06/07		 WATERCOURSE_CHANNEL-
_TYPE		 BRAIDED Shallow and subdivided into a number of continually shifting smaller channels that are separated by bar deposits; braided. EXAMPLE Split stream. 1 IR [FACC, Annex B, HFC:14] [FPG]
STD
2005/06/07		 WATERCOURSE_CHANNEL-
_TYPE		 CHANNELIZED Contained in a <TERRAIN_CHANNEL>; channelized. 2 IR [FACC, Annex B, HFC:1] [FPG]
STD
2005/06/07		 WATERCOURSE_CHANNEL-
_TYPE		 GORGE <GORGE>. 3      
STD
2005/06/07		 WATERCOURSE_CHANNEL-
_TYPE		 MEANDERING The ratio of the actual channel distance to the straight line distance between two <LOCATION>s on the <WATERCOURSE> is greater than 1,5; meandering. 4 IR [FPG]  
STD
2005/06/07		 WATERCOURSE_CHANNEL-
_TYPE		 NON_MEANDERING The ratio of the actual channel distance to the straight line distance between two <LOCATION>s on the <WATERCOURSE> is 1,5 or less; non-meandering. 5 IR [FACC, Annex B, HFC:8] [FPG]
STD
2005/06/07		 WATERCOURSE_CHANNEL-
_TYPE		 OXBOW A pronounced meander or horseshoe-shaped loop in a <WATERCOURSE>; oxbow. 6 IR [FACC, Annex B, HFC:32] [FPG]
STD
2005/06/07		 WATERCOURSE_CHANNEL-
_TYPE		 WADI <WADI>. 7      
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