Then Mazurek added brightly colored accents--including purple-flowering basil, red-mottled bromeliad, and variegated yucca--to round out a look that's playful and full of
riverlike movement, but without the pricey water bill.
Above each lock and dam is a lake that tails down into more
riverlike conditions before it reaches the next impounded area.
Moreover, deep,
riverlike canyons snake across the ocean floor (SN: 1/1/05, p.9).
Three thousand years later, modern oceanographers confirm the world ocean is connected in
riverlike fashion; using a schematic known as the ocean conveyor belt, they portray Okeanos as a M6biuslike ribbon winding through all the ocean basins, rising and falling, and stirring the waters of the world.
But we go on, making turns, crossing
riverlike streams and pondlike puddles that take over after the asphalt has ended.
There appears to be a
riverlike stream of fast material below the polar regions.
Radarsat maps also reveal how ice shelves, moving through
riverlike ice streams, reach the ocean and splinter into icebergs.
Recent analyses of the seafloor topography off the coast of Virginia suggest that these currents also play a large and widespread role in carving and sculpting
riverlike networks of undersea canyons there.
But it is the
riverlike features on Venus that are forcing scientists to rethink what it is that constitutes and causes volcanism.
The
riverlike edge repeats in other features of the stone-covered patio.