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“Rivers are perturbed all the time but only avulse if they are set up by enough deposition,” he says.

From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021

Geographers had already noticed that rivers tend to avulse at the foot of mountains, where slopes change dramatically and sediment settles out, silting up the bed.

From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021

“We realized this spectacular archive recorded a major event that reorganized the delta’s water pathways,” Chamberlain says, adding that the delta’s river channel probably hasn’t avulsed since then.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 17, 2024

The real world agrees: The Mississippi has avulsed in central Louisiana about once every 1400 years, creating large delta lobes across the Gulf Coast.

From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021

In the last seven thousand years, the river has avulsed six times, and each time it has set about laying down a new bulge of land.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019

The X-ray showed that a bit of bone had avulsed from his pelvis.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2017

All the tendons in relation to the upper end of the humerus are stretched or torn, and the great tuberosity is not infrequently avulsed.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

For example, the vast Pantanal, in the heart of South America, is kept rich and muddy by the avulsing Taquari River.

From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021

So if an avulsing river encounters an old channel, he says, it is likely to colonize it.

From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021

An alternative procedure consists in avulsing segments of the vein by means of Babcock's stylet, which consists of a flexible steel rod, 30 inches in length, with acorn-shaped terminals.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson