They are formed by the gradually flooding and draining of a river. So, every time a river floods the silt it carries is depositied either sides of its banks, with eventually build up a flat layer of aluvinum, which is a flood plain.
I am uncomfortable, living in a floodplain...
the floodplain was near my house.
Thankfully, the floodplain is dry right now.
Songs from the Floodplain was created on 2009-03-02.
An example of a floodplain would be the land around Lake Superior
Culgoa Floodplain National Park was created in 1994.
Hmm, let's think about this. Floodplain. Plain: A flat area of land. Flooded: Filled with water. So a floodplain gets filled with water,
Yao Yin has written: 'Modifications to the upper Mississippi River and their effects on floodplain forests' -- subject(s): Floodplain forestry, Floodplain management
Floodplain is important because it helps reduce flooding and recharges our drinking water supply.
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Hydrologic floodplain, the land adjacent to the baseflow channel residing below bankfull elevation. It is inundated about two years out of three. Not every stream corridor has a hydrologic floodplain.Topographic floodplain, the land adjacent to the channel including the hydrologic floodplain and other lands up to an elevation based on the elevation reached by a flood peak of a given frequency; for example, the 1-percent (100 year) floodplain.Another way to look at it, in an incising channel, that is to say that the river is cutting into valley, will create two floodplain benches, the lower and narrow one the hydrologic floodplain and the higher and much wider one the topographical floodplain.