flood plain deposits
1flood plain — noun a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding • Syn: ↑floodplain • Hypernyms: ↑plain, ↑field, ↑champaign * * * a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally… …
2flood-plain splay — A fan shaped deposit or other outspread deposit formed where an overloaded stream breaks through a levee (natural or artificial) and deposits its material (often coarse grained) on the flood plain. Compare: crevasse. GG …
3alluvial plain — /əluviəl ˈpleɪn/ (say uhloohveeuhl playn) noun a river flood plain with a surface covered by alluvial deposits …
4North China Plain — ▪ plain, China Chinese (Pinyin) Huabei Pingyuan or (Wade Giles romanization) Hua pei P ing yüan, also called Yellow Plain or Huang Huai Hai Plain large alluvial plain of northern China, built up along the shore of the Yellow Sea by …
5Indo-Gangetic Plain — Schematic map of the Indo Gangetic Plain …
6Touchet Formation — The Touchet Formation (also referred to as Touchet beds) consists of large quantities of gravel and fine sediment which overlays several thousand feet of volcanic basalt of the Columbia River Basalt Group. These Touchet beds are often covered by… …
7Big Eddy Site — The Big Eddy Site (23CE426) is an archaeological site located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri, which was first excavated in 1997 and is now threatened due to erosion from the Sac River. Location and General… …
8Kayenta Formation — The Kayenta Formation is a geologic layer in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the Colorado Plateau province of the United States, including northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. This rock formation is particularly… …
9floodplain — flood·plain also flood plain (flŭdʹplān ) n. A plain bordering a river and subject to flooding. * * * ▪ geology also called Alluvial Plain, flat land area adjacent to a stream, composed of unconsolidated sedimentary deposits (alluvium)… …
10river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …
