Color Names

Riverbed

Smooth stones and shallow water, where a river rests.

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Riverbed is a pastel teal, close to blue.

It can be described as pastel, soft, light and unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Riverbed

Stream bed

A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river and is confined within a channel or the banks of the waterway. Usually, the bed does not contain terrestrial (land) vegetation and instead supports different types of aquatic vegetation, depending on the type of streambed material and water velocity. Streambeds are what would be left once a stream is no longer in existence. The beds are usually well preserved even if they get buried because the banks and canyons made by the stream are typically hard, although soft sand and debris often fill the bed. Dry, buried streambeds can actually be underground water pockets. During times of rain, sandy streambeds can soak up and retain water, even during dry seasons, keeping the water table close enough to the surface to be obtainable by local people.

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riverbed

Noun

  1. The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
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