What's the difference between coulee and gulch?

Coulee


Definition:

  • (n.) A stream
  • (n.) a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a ca–on, which has precipitous sides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Suess said the spill migrated about six miles from the spill site along Ash Coulee creek, and it fouled an unknown amount of private and US Forest Service land along the waterway.
  • (2) The pipeline is buried on a hill near Ash Coulee creek, and the “hillside sloughed”, which may have ruptured the line, she said.
  • (3) The five-mile round trip trek to the rock offers outstanding views of Dry Falls and the Grand Coulee below the former falls.
  • (4) The six-inch steel Belle Fourche pipeline is mostly underground but was built above ground where it crosses Ash Coulee creek, Suess said.

Gulch


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of gulching or gulping.
  • (n.) A glutton.
  • (n.) A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.
  • (v. t.) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hippies and peaceniks hid out in California Gulch, a fertile valley nearby.
  • (2) TOP TIP Don't miss Pinnacle's unique talus caves, Bear Gulch in the east and Balconies Cave in the west.

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