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According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, Florida's fossil record stretches back more than 50 million years, with shark teeth among the most common finds in beaches, creek beds and riverbeds.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Omar El Akkad writes that words only exist in hindsight; time washes over and around them like water down a riverbed.
—Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
In June, 2024, Perseverance, a NASA rover sent to collect samples on the surface of Mars, came upon a cluster of rocks in what is thought to be a former riverbed.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
The study also concluded that potentially toxic copper also settled into the riverbed.
—Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Omar El Akkad writes that words only exist in hindsight; time washes over and around them like water down a riverbed.
—Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
In June, 2024, Perseverance, a NASA rover sent to collect samples on the surface of Mars, came upon a cluster of rocks in what is thought to be a former riverbed.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
The study also concluded that potentially toxic copper also settled into the riverbed.
—Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Riverbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riverbed. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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riverbed
noun
riv·er·bed
-ˌbed 
: the channel occupied or once occupied by a river
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