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Rejuvenation (river) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A river is said to be rejuvenated when the base level that it is flowing down to is lowered. This can happen by uplift of land, or by a sea or lake that it is flowing into becoming lower. That makes...
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In earth science, the renewal of a river's powers of downward erosion. It may be caused by a fall in sea level or a rise in land level, by climate change, by changes in vegetation cover (deforestation), or by the increase in water flow that results when one river captures another (river capture).
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KERMAN — A research crew drilling holes this week along the dry San Joaquin River found a clue about whether a rejuvenated river might damage a nearby pistachio orchard. ... The natural river, along with salmon runs, died after Friant Dam was built in the 1940s to provide irrigation water to faltering east Valley...
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Launched with a flurry of big-name hires, the rejuvenated River & Mercantile has had a lot to live up to. ... Two years is a mere blink of the eye when compared to the near 130-year history of the River & Mercantile name. But that is how long it took the latest company to bear the name to make it thoroughly its own.
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