In some cases, overloaded cars fell through the ice, and today, car parts from this illegal era can still be seen on the bottom of the river.

Top to bottom: the Somme, the Authie ( river ) | Authie and the Canche

The Juruá River ( Portuguese Rio Juruá ; Spanish Río Yurúa ) is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses.

There is evidence that the species was found in highest numbers in the once extensive bottom land river forests and swamps of the southeastern United States.

The massive mountain ranges are cut by hundreds of canyons and gorges at the bottom of which run streams that flow into larger river valleys where the majority of the country's population lives and works.

Each ferry carries 73 cars and operates using its own set of slipways and parallel chains, with a vehicle weight limit of The ferry boats are propelled across the river by pulling themselves on the chains ; the chains then sink to the bottom to allow shipping movements in the river.

Illustration of naval torpedoes moored to the river bottom ( the predecessors of modern naval mines ).

Large turtles tend to swim less than smaller ones, and the very big species, such as alligator snapping turtles, hardly swim at all, preferring to simply walk along the bottom of the river or lake.

Their specific gravity allows them to sink and walk or run along the bottom of a river.

One of the pilings on the east bank was driven into the bottom of the river alongside the north wall of the old tunnel.

Hiking down to the river and back up to the rim in one day is discouraged by park officials because of the distance, steep and rocky trails, change in elevation, and danger of heat exhaustion from the much higher temperatures at the bottom.

The crossings were doubly treacherous because there were often hidden holes in the river bottom which could overturn the wagon or ensnarl the team, sometimes with fatal consequences.

They are small to medium-sized bottom dwelling fishes that live primarily in estuaries, bays, and muddy river banks.

By the year 600, there were major build ups of silt on the bottom of the Hong Gou canal, obstructing river barges whose drafts were too deep for its waters.

The cause of the floods is the large amount of fine-grained loess carried by the river from the Loess Plateau, which is continuously deposited along the bottom of its channel.

Lower Lane, which runs under Waterloo Bridge along the bottom of the river valley to the north of the town centre, is one of the few parts of the town where the River Sheppey runs above ground.

Pin oak grows primarily on level or nearly level, poorly drained alluvial floodplain and river bottom soils with high clay content.

Where the river bottom was shallow and firm, voyageurs would stand in the canoe and push it upstream with 10-foot poles.

Geologist William G. Tight ( 1865 – 1910 ) named the preglacial Teays River after Teays, which lies in the " riverless " Teays Valley that used to be the bottom of the river.

Across the Mississippi from Fort Kaskaskia was a large fertile section of river bottom, called the " Grand Champ " or Big Field.

Of these, 500 camped near Booneville on the former Arch Wilson farm, with the remainder proceeding to the river bottom eight miles upriver at Wolfe Creek near the mouth of Deaton Branch.

) Much of the river bottom is white limestone, now obscured by mud.

He gave her money and gems, which he collected from the bottom of the river he lived in.

She sits at the bottom of the river, knitting.

After the merge of the three forks the river flattens and travels through Grant, Cleveland, Bradley, and Ashley counties.

Past the moraines, the land flattens out again, but is interspersed with a few deep river valleys such as the Illinois River, Fox River, Des Plaines River, and Kankakee River.

The river flows to the north-west through a deep, narrow valley that widens and flattens into a wide floodplain below Clanwilliam.

The French, however, realised Bayonne's strategic site near the Spanish border and in 1578 dug a canal to again redirect the river through the city.

Stilicho defeated Alaric at Pollentia, on the river Tanarus on Easter Day ( 6 April 402 ) Alaric retreated to Verona, where Stilicho attacked him again.

An enormous coalition consisting of Goths ( Greuthungi and Thervingi ), Gepids and Peucini, led again by the Heruli, assembled at the mouth of river Tyras ( Dniester ).

Marriotte combined velocity and river cross-section measurements to obtain discharge, again in the Seine.

After the battle, the Romans quickly bridged the river, thereby prompting the Helvetii to once again send an embassy, this time led by Divico, another figure whom Caesar links to the ignominious defeat of 107 BC by calling him bello Cassio dux Helvetiorum ( i. e. “ leader of the Helvetii in the Cassian campaign ”).

When they began raiding again, he led a unified army of all German tribes to victory at the Battle of Riade in 933 near the river Unstrut, thus stopping the Magyar advance into Germany.

Ibn Battuta left again for Baghdad, probably in July, but first took an excursion northwards along the river Tigris, visiting Mosul, Cizre and Mardin, in modern day Iraq and Turkey.

Rivers in karst areas may disappear underground a number of times and spring up again in different places, usually under a different name ( like Ljubljanica, the river of seven names ).

At a site simply named " The Sinks " in Sinks Canyon State Park, the river flows into a cave in a formation known as the Madison Limestone, and then rises again a half-mile down the canyon in a placid pool.

Then the natural dam on the Goulburn River failed, the lake drained, and the Murray River avulsed to the south and started to flow through the smaller Goulburn River channel, creating " The Barmah Choke " and " The Narrows " ( where the river channel is unusually narrow ), before entering into the proper Murray River channel again.

He returned to explore the river again in other expeditions.

Once news of Stephen's capture reached him, Geoffrey of Anjou invaded Normandy again and, in the absence of Waleran of Beaumont, who was still fighting in England, Geoffrey took all the duchy south of the river Seine and east of the river Risle.

As of the fall of 2003, the river once again reaches the Gulf.

In c. 325 and again in 410, the city, or the Greek colony directly across the river, was the site of church councils for the Church of the East.

Coastal and river trading posts were built, abandoned, and built again.

An enormous coalition of " Scythians ", actually consisting of Goths ( Greuthungi and Tervingi ), Gepids and Peucini, led again by the Heruli, assembled at the mouth of river Tyras ( Dniester ).

Twenty-four years later, the river hosted the rowing events again at Bassin d ' Argenteuil, along the Seine north of Paris.

Some like controversial journalist Brian Rudman have criticised such deals in respect of ' secretive taniwha which rise up from swamps and river beds every now and again, demanding a tithe from Transit New Zealand '.

The river occasionally floods after heavy rain, such as on 20 October 2006, and again on 29 May 2008, when rainfall was so heavy that the culverts were unable to cope with the volume of water, resulting in the flooding of some of the lower-lying parts of the town.

In addition to all the benefits of their Riverworld-bodies, the resurrected human race is effectively immortal as, should an individual die, they will soon find themselves once again, as themselves, whole in body, somewhere else along the banks of the river.

The Williamites were not able to resume their advance until their own horsemen managed to cross the river and, after being badly mauled, managed to hold off the Jacobite cavalry until they retired and regrouped at Donore, where they once again put up stiff resistance before retiring.

Twice it was advanced to the line of the Antonine Wall, at about the time when Hadrian's Wall was built and again under Septimius Severus, and once further north, beyond the river Tay, during Agricola's campaigns – although each time it was soon withdrawn.

The Biała again became a border river, when in 1315 the eastern Duchy of Oświęcim split off from Cieszyn as a separate under Mieszko's son Władysław.

Pausanias mentions that Phliasians and Sicyonians claimed that its source was in fact the Phrygian and Carian river Maeander that purportedly descended underground where it appeared to enter the sea at Miletus and rose again in the Peloponnesos as Asopus.