streaked

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Rusty red deposits in streambeds are distinctive signs of iron sulfide oxidation.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024

In the early days it was scary to walk in six-foot-high stands of sugarcane and other tall crops where the animals could hide or along dry streambeds with overhanging shrubbery where they might rest.

From Scientific American • Apr. 22, 2023

Salmon, which begin their life cycle in streambeds, migrate to the ocean as juveniles, and then return to their birthplace to spawn before dying.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023

It is during this time that coho salmon are returning from the Pacific Ocean to the pebbled streambeds where they hatched from golden eggs.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022

By day they followed game trails and streambeds, the "ranger's roads" that led them ever deeper into the wilderness of leaf and root.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin