Arwadito
Arwadito | |
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Dogu’a Tembien | |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Ts’ats’en Plateau |
• location | Agerbi’a in Lim'at municipality |
• elevation | 2,700 m (8,900 ft) |
Mek'ele-Abiy Addi | |
Topography | Mountains and gorges |
The Arwadito is a torrent of the
Characteristics
It is a confined bedrock river, with an average slope gradient of 149 metres per kilometre. The Arwadito has cut a gorge in the surrounding basalt.[2]
Flash floods and flood buffering
Runoff mostly happens in the form of high runoff discharge events that occur in a very short period (called
Physical conservation structures such as stone bunds[3][4] and check dams also intercept runoff.[5][6]
Observing that, in rivers with coarse
Boulders and pebbles in the river bed
Boulders and pebbles encountered in the river bed can originate from any location higher up in the catchment. In the uppermost stretches of the river, only rock fragments of the upper lithological units will be present in the river bed, whereas more downstream one may find a more comprehensive mix of all lithologies crossed by the river. From upstream to downstream, the following lithological units occur in the catchment.[8]
See also
- List of Ethiopian rivers
References
- ISBN 978-3-030-04954-6.
- ^ S2CID 199099067.
- hdl:1854/LU-378900.
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- S2CID 98547102.
- hdl:1854/LU-8518957.
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- ISBN 978-3-030-04954-6.