It is used occasionally when it is necessary to limit the turning circle as the yacht swings when it is anchored, such as in a very narrow river or a deep pool in an otherwise shallow area.

Even certain male deities representing regeneration and fertility were occasionally depicted with breast-like appendices, such as the river god Hapy who was considered to be responsible for the annual overflowing of the Nile.

They occasionally get stranded as the river dries up at the end of rainy season.

Marine animals such as whales and sea lions are occasionally found far inland after navigating the river for food or refuge and then losing track of how to get back to the Pacific Ocean.

A canyon ( occasionally spelled cañon ) or gorge is a deep ravine between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river.

The remainder of Iredell County consists of gently rolling countryside occasionally broken by low hills and small river valleys.

Common staples in Leticia include river fish, domestic ( and occasionally wild ) meat, rice, locally-grown vegetables and potatoes.

After some initial conflicts, many of the Irish residents moved across to the far side of the river, but were not placated, instead choosing to occasionally enter into the English section and cause trouble ; this was met with similar action by the English settlers.

The Allegheny River and Oil Creek freeze occasionally during the winter, sometimes causing ice jams ; although remediation by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers has reduced ice formation via a floating ice control structure on the river and a fixed concrete weir on the banks of the creek.

He occasionally performed episcopal functions in Mercia and Kent, but never did so north of the river Humber.

The Cam is normally a placid river but flooding does occasionally happen.

The Slavic people who later moved into the Havel river area were referred to in German sources as Heveller ( occasionally as Havolane ).

The Snake River has cut a deeper canyon farther southeast where the plains are higher and has disclosed the many lava sheets which build up the plains, occasionally revealing a buried mountain in which the superposed river has cut an even narrower canyon.

Bagpipes in Spain are traditionally found across the north and centre, most notably in Asturias and Galicia, but also in León, Aragon, Extremadura, Zamora, the island of Majorca and the neighbouring areas of northern Portugal: Minho, Trás-os-Montes and, occasionally, in some regions south Douro river.

Migrants seldom seen inland but occasionally show up at lake shores, river bars, or alkali flats.

The river's name is presumed to be Brythonic Celtic meaning ' river where oak trees grow ' due to the banks of the lower Dart being covered in ancient woods of native oak Bray notes in 1832 that the name was occasionally spelled ' Darant '.

In Moscow, the river freezes occasionally ; during an unusually warm winter in 2006-2007, ice began melting on January 25.

Latvians occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia.

The river hosts brown trout, grayling and, occasionally, Atlantic salmon.

They occur on hilltops, slopes, rock outcrops and occasionally ( as in the case of Driekops Eiland near Kimberley ), in a river bed.

: The crabs are typically found in the mouth of the Hudson River and occasionally wander into the brackish waters of small rivers and coves that pepper the western side of Long Island ; up the Hudson it is found occasionally in the part of the river that runs through the lower Hudson Valley in the summertime.

In some cases she points out discrepancies in the topographical descriptions, occasionally for instance altering the course of a road or a river on the grounds that it would otherwise be inconsistent with Tolkien's other descriptions of the terrain.

* Virtual Jungle Cruise: Paddle an inflatable raft ( with real paddles ) as you make your way down a prehistoric river, avoiding dinosaurs and occasionally getting sprayed with water.

Archaeological research indicates that people once lived at a much higher elevation along the river than they do today, probably because the river was higher or the floods more severe.

Ice congestions may form in winter in the upper reaches of the river, this sometimes causes upstream floods.

Traditional Mithila culture along the lower Koshi in Nepal and Bihar celebrated the river as the giver of life for its fertile alluvial soil, yet also the taker of life through its catastrophic floods.

The Paraneña region can be generally described as consisting of an area of highlands in the east that slopes toward the Río Paraguay and becomes an area of lowlands, subject to floods, along the river.

On the upper course, sudden floods may raise the water level by as much as five meters in twenty-four hours ; west of Encarnación, however, the rocks of the riverbed sometimes come within one meter of the surface during winter and effectively sever communication between the upper river and Buenos Aires.

The effect is to reduce significantly the danger of devastating floods in the Mekong delta, where the river floods the surrounding fields each year to a level of one to two meters.

* The river Tiber floods parts of Rome.

* The Daisan river, tributary of the Euphrates, floods Edessa, and within a couple of hours fills the entire city, except for the highest parts.

Since the 1860s, the river has been mostly locked in its channel, which once could shift hundreds of feet or even several miles in a year because of floods.

The Weißeritz, normally a rather small river, suddenly ran directly into the main station of Dresden during the 2002 European floods.

The ruling Congress government in Andhra Pradesh state attributed the floods to excessive rainfall in the catchment areas of the river upstream of Srisailam dam.

This resulted in an unprecedented volume of water backing up behind Srisailam dam, resulting in floods both upstream of the river, and downstream as well, when all the gates of the dam were opened for several days to bring storage at Srisailam back to normal levels.

* Fast kinds: include river flash floods resulting from convective precipitation ( intense thunderstorms ) or sudden release from an upstream impoundment created behind a dam, landslide, or glacier.

However, lowlands near rivers depend upon river silt deposited by floods in order to add nutrients to the local soil.

Freshwater floods, particularly play an important role in maintaining ecosystems in river corridors and are a key factor in maintaining floodplain biodiversity.

However, frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding fields has also earned it the unenviable names " China's Sorrow " and " Scourge of the Sons of Han.

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.

The traditional Chinese response of building higher and higher levees along the banks sometimes also contributed to the severity of the floods: When flood water did break through the levees, it could no longer drain back into the river bed as it would after a normal flood as the river bed was sometimes now higher than the surrounding countryside.

A similar proposal from the Song engineer Li Chun concerning flooding the lower reaches of the river to protect the central plains from the Khitai was overruled in 1020: the Treaty of Shanyuan between the two states had expressly forbidden the Song from establishing new moats or changing river courses .< ref name =" Sedtime "> Elvin, Mark & Liu Cuirong it returned to the north amid the floods that provoked the Nien Rebellion.

Since plains can cause a river to flow very slowly, the Tisza used to follow a path with many curves and turns, which led to many large floods in the area.

* Irkutsk Dam ( Иркутская ГЭС ), forming the Irkutsk Reservoir, which floods the valley of the river from its source to Irkutsk, and slightly raises the water level in Lake Baikal.