Cross Sectional Area Of A Stream

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Cross sectional area of a stream. Therefore if a cross section is parallel to the top or bottom of the solid the area of the cross section is l w. Determine the width of each transect by measuring the distance from shoreline. Typical channel features for a c stream type in a terraced alluvial valley type viii.
If the cutting plane is parallel to one of the two sets the sides the cross sectional area is instead given by l h or w h. Bankfull mean depth and bankfull maximum depth obtained from the riffle cross section. To measure cross sectional area.
The cross sectional area of the stream is determined by multiplying channel depth by channel width along a transverse section of the stream. Unless electronic sounding devices are available to obtain continuous profiles of the channel bottom the engineer must rely on discrete depth measurements to compute a. Bankfull width and cross sectional area obtained from the riffle cross section.