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Definition of Coulees
1. coulee [n] - See also: coulee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coulees
Literary usage of Coulees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"coulees OF THE COLUMBIA PLATEAUS Among the striking physiographic features of
the Columbia River region are the coulees that occur in Washington from ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"coulees are small, rocky depressions or draws cutting across the Twin Falls tract,
... These draws or coulees in the spring arc small natural waterways, ..."
3. The Physiography of the United States: Ten Monographs by National Geographic Society (U.S.), J. W. Powell (1896)
"Between dust or ash, cinders or scoria?, and sheets of lava or coulees, no distinct
demarcation can be made: they grade into one another. ..."
4. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To the by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Elliott Coues, Thomas Jefferson (1893)
"All four of these coulees make into the Missouri from the south. ... The authors
seem to have been misled by the diameters of these coulees, ..."
5. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1902)
"There are few coulees within the belt, and no conspicuous depressions aside from
the broad, deep channel of the Mouse river and Des Lacs lake, ..."
6. The Story of the Prairies: Or, The Landscape Geology of North Dakota by Daniel Everett Willard (1907)
"This is because the Red River has so little fall that it cannot deepen its channel,
and so the coulees upon the prairies cannot lower their mouths, ..."
7. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1917)
"Its feeders, like the western tributaries of the main stream, cut from the bench
to the valley in deep, well-wooded coulees. Below the mouth of the north ..."
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