flood interval
1flood interval — the interval between the transit of the moon over the meridian of a place and the time of the following flood …
2100-year flood — For other uses, see 100 year flood (disambiguation). A one hundred year flood is calculated to be the level of flood water expected to be equaled or exceeded every 100 years on average. The 100 year flood is more accurately referred to as the 1%… …
3Internet Relay Chat flood — Flooding or scrolling on an IRC network is a method of disconnecting users from an IRC server (a form of Denial of Service), exhausting bandwidth which causes network latency ( lag ), or just annoying users. Floods can either be done by scripts… …
41997 Merced River flood — Merced River Flood, December 31, 1996–January 5, 1997 Duration: December 31, 1996 to January 5, 1997, peaking on January 2, 1997 Fatalities: 0 …
5Ancient Greek flood myths — Greek mythology knows four floods, the sinking of Atlantis, the flood of Dardanus, the flood of Ogyges, and the flood of Deucalion. Two of these ended two of the Ages of Man: the Ogygian Deluge ended the Silver Age, and the flood of Deucalion… …
6Sand flood — Sand Sand, n. [AS. sand; akin to D. zand, G. sand, OHG. sant, Icel. sandr, Dan. & Sw. sand, Gr. ?.] 1. Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent …
7Mean Annual Flood — over a series of years, the mean average of the maximum flood discharges experienced in a particular river. Recurrence interval should be once every 2.33 years …
8duration of flood — the interval in which a tidal current is flooding, determined from the middle of slack waters …
9Jurassic Period — Interval of geologic time, 206–144 million years ago, that is one of the three major divisions of the Mesozoic Era, preceded by the Triassic Period and followed by the Cretaceous. During the Jurassic, Pangea began to break up into the present day …
10Devonian Period — Interval of geologic time from 417 to 354 million years ago; it was the fourth period of the Paleozoic Era. During the Devonian, a giant continent was situated in the Southern Hemisphere (see Gondwana), and other landmasses were located in the… …
