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Aggradational floodplain: This floodplain of a small meander ing stream in La Plata County, Colorado, is underlain by silt deposited above a dam formed by a terminal moraine left by the Wisconsin glaciation | Wisconsin Glacier.
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In early medieval Riez in upper Provence, alluvial silt from two small rivers raised the riverbeds and widened the floodplain, which slowly buried the Roman settlement in alluvium and gradually moved new construction to higher ground ; concurrently the headwater valleys above Riez were being opened to pasturage.
By about 3500 BC, hundreds of small farming villages dotted the Indus River floodplain.
A small portion of the town ( the eastern side ) is within the floodplain itself.
Their small floodplain has been adapted as the basis of Franklin's green walkways and parks, which extend the entire length of the town.
By about 3500 B. C., hundreds of small farming villages dotted the Indus floodplain.
This is usually found in semi-open landscapes with small woodlands, hedges, scattered old trees, edges of forests and floodplain forests.
By about 3500 B. C., hundreds of small farming villages dotted the Indus floodplain.
The families Gymnotidae and Hypopomidae are most diverse ( numbers of species ) and abundant ( numbers of individuals ) in small " terra-firme " ( non-floodplain " streams and rivers, and in floodplain " floating meadows " of aquatic macrophytes ( e. g., Eichornium, the Amazonian water hyacinth ).
King John SculptureThe Magna Carta was sealed at nearby Runnymede in 1215, and is commemorated by a memorial, built in 1957 by the American Bar Association, at the foot of Cooper's Hill ( a small rise adjacent to the Thames floodplain, immortalised in verse by such luminaries as John Denham (' Cooper's Hill ') and Alexander Pope (' Windsor Forest ')).
Molalla River State Park, where the confluence of the Molalla, Pudding, and Willamette form a floodplain, provides one of the most significant habitats for small mammals and waterfowl in the Willamette Valley, including one of the largest blue heron rookeries in the region.
The upper reaches meander in a series of convoluted loops across a floodplain near Paerau before running through two small hydroelectric power stations before Patearoa in the Maniototo.
It crosses under Peekamoose Road, here also carrying the Long Path hiking trail, again just north of a popular camping area in the small Peekamoose Wild Forest, and then passes the hamlet of Sundown and widens slightly as a floodplain develops alongside.
The northern of these two flat areas surrounded the floodplain of the Water of Leith, a small river that runs through Dunedin.
The flood usually arrives by January, peaks in April and is gone by June, leaving a floodplain green with new grass on which a population of about 250, 000 moves in to graze a similar number of cattle, catch fish and raise crops in small gardens.
There are small coal mines near the town, and the main crops grown on the fertile banks and floodplain of the rivers are rice, cassava, and beans.
floodplain and meander
Aggradation and plantation: The Laramie River meander s across its floodplain in Albany County, Wyoming, 1949.
The Isle of Dogs is formed from the lock entrances to the former West India Docks and the largest current meander of the River Thames and the southern part of the borough forms a part of the historic flood plain of the River Thames ;< ref >< cite > BBC on Thames floodplain.
Below the horseshoe bend the Hoh River begins to meander widely through a broad and flat floodplain.
Northeast of Donaldsonville, Louisiana, a borrow pit excavated for fill used to maintain nearby artificial levees, exposed three levels of rooted upright tree trunks stacked on top of each other lying completely buried beneath the surface of Point Houmas, a patch of floodplain lying within a meander loop of the current course of the Mississippi River.
floodplain and stream
A floodplain or flood plain is a flat or nearly flat land adjacent a stream or river that stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls and experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.
In other words, a floodplain is an area near a river or a stream which floods when the water level reaches flood stage.
These are old floodplains that remain relatively high above the present floodplain and indicate former courses of a stream.
Sections of the Missouri River floodplain taken by the United States Geological Survey show a great variety of material of varying coarseness, the stream bed having been scoured at one place and filled at another by currents and floods of varying swiftness, so that sometimes the deposits are of coarse gravel, sometimes of fine sand or of fine silt.
Where a detailed study of a waterway has been done, the 100-year floodplain will also include the floodway, the critical portion of the floodplain which includes the stream channel and any adjacent areas that must be kept free of encroachments that might block flood flows or restrict storage of flood waters.
For much of its length, it is a classic wide, muddy and shallow braided stream which in the lower reaches flows in a floodplain bordered by bluffs.
* Fluvial ( stream or river ) terrace, natural, flat surface or surfaces that border ( s ) and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river.
* Yazoo stream, a type of floodplain tributary
It flows west across the western end of the Snake River Plain in the Treasure Valley and becomes a braided stream with a wide floodplain as it crosses northern Canyon County to the Snake River.
The alluvium along the stream floodplain is up to thick and provides an unconsolidated aquifer that can supply up to 1, 000 US gallons per minute ( 63 L / s ) of well flow.
Along this section it is largely an ignored urban stream, with an undeveloped floodplain.
Fluvial terraces are the remnants of earlier floodplains that existed at a time when either a stream or river was flowing at a higher elevation before its channel downcut to create a new floodplain at a lower elevation.
floodplain and County
Claymont is located at ( 39. 799512 ,-75. 464699 ), in northeastern Brandywine Hundred, on the ridge line between the coastal floodplain of the Delaware River and the upland piedmont area of northwestern New Castle County.
Bullard Creek Wildlife Management Area occupies the southern floodplain of the river's first few miles, after which the river marks the boundary between Toombs County to the north and Appling County to the south.
It occurs from Sonoma County, especially in the Laguna de Santa Rosa ( outside the floodplain ), south to Santa Barbara County, in vernal pool complexes and isolated ponds along the Central Valley from Colusa County to Kern County, and in the coastal range.
The Nakdong valley includes numerous floodplain wetlands, the most well-known of which are the Joonam Reservoirs near Changwon City and Upo Ramsar site, in Changnyeong County, South Gyeongsang.
After briefly serving as the line between Orange and Ulster counties, it passes by Wallkill, the second community to take its name from the river, and then the striking scenery of the Shawangunk Ridge is visible as it winds past the Ulster County Fairgrounds and New Paltz, where its floodplain becomes more noticeable, on the way to its mouth at the Rondout.
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When some base level is reached, the erosive activity switches to lateral erosion, which widens the valley floor and creates a narrow floodplain.
The glass pavilion is raised six feet above a floodplain next to the Fox River, surrounded by forest and rural prairies.
The difference between a floodplain and an alluvial plain is that the floodplain represents the area experiencing flooding fairly regularly in the present or recently, whereas an alluvial plain includes areas where the floodplain is now and used to be, or areas which only experience flooding a few times a century.
Irrigation is widely used, and marshlands in the Danube's floodplain have been diked and drained to provide additional tillable land.
It is usually earthen and often parallel to the course of a river in its floodplain or along low-lying coastlines.
The upper Nera cuts ravines in the mountains ; the lower in the Chiascio-Topino basin is in a fairly large floodplain.
Referring to the floodplain as a lake may be misleading, as less than half of Lake Chad is covered by water through an entire year.
Benalla is situated on a mostly flat floodplain of the Broken River catchment situated directly to the north and west of the Great Dividing Range.
Lewes Brooks, also of biological importance, is part of the floodplain of the River Ouse, providing a habitat for many invertebrates such as water beetles and snails.
The floodplain during its formation is marked by meandering or anastomotic streams, ox-bow lakes and bayous, marshes or stagnant pools, and is occasionally completely covered with water.
When the drainage system has ceased to act or is entirely diverted for any reason, the floodplain may become a level area of great fertility, similar in appearance to the floor of an old lake.
The floodplain differs, however, because it is not altogether flat.
When a floodway is shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps, the portion of the 100-year floodplain outside of the floodway is known as the flood fringe.
The largest swamp in the world is the Amazon River floodplain, which is particularly significant for its large number of fish and tree species.
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