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Wadi, the Glossary

Wadi (wādī), alternatively wād (وَاد), Maghrebi Arabic Oued) is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a river valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs. Arroyo (Spanish) is used in the Americas for similar landforms.^[1]

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Canyons and gorges
Dry or seasonal streams
Valleys
Wadis

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Al Bithnah Fort

Bithnah Fort is a traditional double story rock, coral and mudbrick fortification located in the Wadi Ham, near the village of Bithnah in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

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Alluvial fan

An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment. Wadi and alluvial fan are Fluvial landforms.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Andalusi Arabic

Andalusi Arabic or Andalusian Arabic was a variety or varieties of Arabic spoken mainly from the 9th to the 15th century in Al-Andalus, the regions of the Iberian Peninsula, respectively modern Spain until the late-15th century, and modern Portugal until the mid-13th century under Muslim rule.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Arroyo (watercourse)

An arroyo, from Spanish arroyo ("brook"), also called a wash, is a dry watercourse that temporarily or seasonally fills and flows after sufficient rain. Wadi and arroyo (watercourse) are canyons and gorges, dry or seasonal streams, Fluvial landforms and valleys.

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Ash Sharqiyah North Governorate

Ash Sharqiyah North Governorate (Muḥāfaẓat Šamāl aš-Šarqīyah, English: Northeastern Governorate) is a governorate of Oman.

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Ash Sharqiyah Region (Oman)

Ash-Sharqiyyah Region (lit) was the eastern minṭaqah (region) of the Sultanate of Oman.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Basin and range topography

Basin and range topography is characterized by alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys.

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Braided river

A braided river (also called braided channel or braided stream) consists of a network of river channels separated by small, often temporary, islands called braid bars or, in British English usage, aits or eyots. Wadi and braided river are Fluvial landforms.

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Canyon

A canyon (from; archaic British English spelling: cañon), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Wadi and canyon are canyons and gorges.

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Dry lake

A dry lake bed, also known as a playa, is a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceed recharge.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Eolianite

Eolianite or aeolianite is any rock formed by the lithification of sediment deposited by aeolian processes; that is, the wind.

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Ephemerality

Ephemerality (from the Greek word ἐφήμερος, meaning 'lasting only one day') is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly.

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Flash flood

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions.

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Guadalajara, Spain

Guadalajara is a city and municipality in Spain, located in the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha.

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Guadalcanal, Seville

Guadalcanal is a village in the province of Seville, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

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Guadalquivir

The Guadalquivir (also) is the fifth-longest river in the Iberian Peninsula and the second-longest river with its entire length in Spain.

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Imbrication (sedimentology)

In sedimentology, imbrication is a primary depositional fabric consisting of a preferred orientation of clasts such that they overlap one another in a consistent fashion, rather like a run of toppled dominoes.

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International Hydrological Programme

The Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme, formerly the International Hydrological Programme (IHP), is UNESCO’s international scientific cooperative program in water research, water resource management, water education, and capacity- building, and the only broadly based science program of the UN system in this area.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Journal of Hydrology

Journal of Hydrology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier about hydrological sciences including water based management and related policy issues.

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Loess

A loess (from Löss) is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.

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Maghrebi Arabic

Maghrebi Arabic (as opposed to Eastern or Mashriqi Arabic), often known as ad-Dārija (الدارجة, meaning 'common/everyday ') to differentiate it from Literary Arabic, is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Nahal Paran

Nahal Paran (Paran Stream) is a seasonal stream in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Israel's Negev Desert.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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Negev

The Negev (hanNégev) or Negeb (an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel.

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Rain

Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.

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Sabkha

A sabkha (سبخة) is a coastal, supratidal mudflat or sandflat in which evaporite-saline minerals accumulate as the result of semiarid to arid climate.

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Sahara

The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Socotra

Socotra (سُقُطْرَىٰ) or Saqatri is an island of Yemen in the Indian Ocean.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Stream bed

A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river (bathymetry) and is confined within a channel, or the banks (bank (geography) of the waterway. Wadi and stream bed are Fluvial landforms.

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Toponymy

Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.

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Transhumance

Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi

Also known as Dry river beds, Dry riverbed, Oued, Vadi (valley), Wadi, India, Wadis, Wady, Wādi, Wādī.

Wadi, the Glossary

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Canyons and gorges

Dry or seasonal streams

Valleys

Wadis

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