{"thcode":3,"term":{"code":84,"name":"banks (hydrographic)","parent":816,"scope":"Sloping margins of, or the ground bordering, a stream, and serving to confine the water to the natural channel during the normal course of flow. [Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]"},"uf":[{"name":"stream banks","usewith":false}],"bt":[{"code":816,"name":"physiographic features","parent":1,"scope":null},{"code":1,"name":"Categories","parent":null,"scope":null}],"nt":[],"rt":[{"code":618,"name":"levees","parent":526,"scope":"Artificial embankments built along the bank of a watercourse or an arm of the sea, to protect land from inundation or to confine streamflow to its channel. [Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]"}]}