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Ingram Creek (Georgia)
Ingram Creek, originally Arroyo de la Suerte, is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed March 11, 2011 tributary of the San Joaquin River in Stanislaus County, in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The mouth of Ingram Creek is located at at an elevation of where it has its confluence with a slough (hydrology), slough of the San Joaquin River. The upper reach of the creek runs through Ingram Canyon. The source of Ingram Creek is located at the head of Ingram Canyon at the confluence of the source of Ingram Creek is located at the confluence of Grummett Creek and Cedar Spring Gulch at at an elevation of . Its headwaters are in the Diablo Range. It is a western tributary of the San Joaquin River. Geology Ingram Creek eroded from the following formations; the Franciscan Assemblage, Mesozoic Ultrabasic rocks, ultrabasic Intrusive rock, intrusive rocks, and Pelagic sediment, marine sediments of Upper Creta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tributary
A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they flow, drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater, leading the water out into an ocean, another river, or into an endorheic basin. The Irtysh is a chief tributary of the Ob (river), Ob river and is also the longest tributary river in the world with a length of . The Madeira River is the largest tributary river by volume in the world with an average discharge of . A confluence, where two or more bodies of water meet, usually refers to the joining of tributaries. The opposite to a tributary is a distributary, a river or stream that branches off from and flows away from the main stream. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
