streamway

plural streamways

1. The path of a stream, especially as a route through which water or ice drains, or (below ground) through which cavers travel.

   A large tube is then followed over several silt banks to surface after a total dive of 200 m in a large passage containing an active streamway – The San Agustin Way. 5 m before the passage surfaces another line junction is passed, ...

   2006, Duncan Price, Welsh Sump Index, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 41

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   In the initial stage of this development there existed presumably a free run-off of meltwaters within the present-day ice-marginal streamway towards the west, and then towards the north. The active margin of the icesheet stayed at that time ...

   1961, International Association for Quaternary Research, International Association for Quaternary Research. Conference, Rajmund Galon, Guide-book of excursion: From the Baltic to the Tatras