streamway
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]streamway (plural streamways)
- The path of a stream, especially as a route through which water or ice drains, or (below ground) through which cavers travel.
- 1961, International Association for Quaternary Research, International Association for Quaternary Research. Conference, Rajmund Galon, Guide-book of excursion: From the Baltic to the Tatras:
- In the initial stage of this development there existed presumably a free run-off of meltwaters within the present-day ice-marginal streamway towards the west, and then towards the north. The active margin of the icesheet stayed at that time ...
- 2006, Duncan Price, Welsh Sump Index, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 41:
- A large tube is then followed over several silt banks to surface after a total dive of 200 m in a large passage containing an active streamway – The San Agustin Way. 5 m before the passage surfaces another line junction is passed, ...