Originally posted by Tonytee This is your idea of a stream? What do you think of as a river? Lake Superior?
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Wonderful photograph and thanks for uploading.
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It's my geology background. Many words for water that runs along an established channel: river, stream, brook, run, rivulet, bourn, creek, rill, beck, etc. etc. The USGS long ago decided that any and all examples of water flowing along a definite course should be called a "STREAM," from the tiniest flow through the woods to the Mississippi, Nile, Amazon, etc. Geologically, they are all "streams'" but they have very different discharges. BTW: flowing water that is
not following a defined channel is called "overland flow," although if it is very shallow and wide, it may be called "sheet wash."