woodjam

woodjam

English

Etymology

wood +‎ jam

Noun

woodjam (plural woodjams)

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   • 1993, Robert Doppelt, ‎Mary Scurlock, Entering the Watershed (page 67)

     […] to treat potential chronic and catastrophic sedimentation problems caused by forest roads, restore riparian areas and re-establish large woodjams at ecologically appropriate sites.

   • 2020, Ellen Wohl, Rivers in the Landscape (page 286)

     In the anastomosing river model, stable alluvial deposits associated with woodjams can resist lateral channel erosion for hundreds of years, providing sites for tree germination.