It included the enormous floodplain drained by the Los Angeles and San Gabriel rivers and the southern Channel Islands, including the Santa Barbara, San Clemente, Santa Catalina, and San Nicholas Islands.

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 Santa Fe Swamp is 95-percent floodplain swamp.

It comes, along with the name of the River Aar ( which was called Arula, Arola, and Araris in early times ), from the German Au, meaning floodplain.

The broad sweep of the Merrimack River valley floodplain provided good soil for farming beans, gourds, pumpkins, melons and maize.

The glass pavilion is raised six feet above a floodplain next to the Fox River, surrounded by forest and rural prairies.

By about 3500 BC, hundreds of small farming villages dotted the Indus River floodplain.

The 19. 5 hectares are situated between Prospect Cemetery and the River Tolka where it forms part of that river's floodplain.

The armies campaigned in the northern Loess Plateau, modern Ningxia and the Yellow River floodplain.

The Ochils meet the flat carse ( floodplain ) of the River Forth to the east of the distinctive geographical feature of Abbey Craig, a crag and tail hill upon which stands the 220 ft ( 67m ) high Wallace National Monument.

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.

While the Susquehanna River has a wide floodplain that has necessitated the construction of floodwalls to protect a large percentage of the city, the areas away from the river increase in elevation approaching Wilkes-Barre Mountain.

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.

Large sections of Athens and Ohio University are located in the floodplain of the Hocking River.

Entrenched river: The Virgin River at the upper end of Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah, has almost no floodplain at all.

Aggradation and plantation: The Laramie River meander s across its floodplain in Albany County, Wyoming, 1949.

Riparian vegetation on the floodplain of the Lynches River close to Johnsonville, South Carolina.

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.

The largest swamp in the world is the Amazon River floodplain, which is particularly significant for its large number of fish and tree species.

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.

The western part of the county on the Mississippi River is part of the American Bottom floodplain, while the eastern portion of the county is relatively flat and was originally prairie.

Arezzo is set on a steep hill rising from the floodplain of the River Arno.

Notable river systems that produce large spans of floodplain include the Nile River ( Africa ), Mississippi River ( USA ), Amazon River ( South America ), Yangtze River ( China ), Danube River ( Central Europe ) and Murray-Darling River ( Australia ).

It was discovered in a floodplain deposit, which suggests the B. marinus habitat preferences have always been for open areas.

" All of this land lay in a floodplain and was underwater during the majority of the year.

He was commonly depicted as a green ( the color of rebirth ) or black ( alluding to the fertility of the Nile floodplain ) complexioned pharaoh, in mummiform ( wearing the trappings of mummification from chest downward ).

Alternatively, the name was reported by Queanbeyan newspaper owner John Gale in the 1860s to be an anglicisation of the indigenous name ' nganbra ' or ' nganbira ', meaning " hollow between a woman's breasts ", and referring to the Sullivans Creek floodplain between Mount Ainslie and Black Mountain.

" Old Leavenworth " ( the original town, now practically abandoned ) was almost completely wiped out by the huge 1937 Ohio River flood, as it was built directly on the floodplain.

Located on the fertile floodplain of the Housatonic River valley, the principal industry was agriculture.

Since it was a floodplain the area is relatively flat and the soil is mainly clay with layers of sand and gravel underneath.

The waste was hauled in dump trucks through Bound Brook to the floodplain south of West Main Street and dumped.

Originally known as Freedom Hill, Princeville was settled by freed slaves on an unwanted floodplain

However, the current downtown area – the original site of Manhattan – was built on a broad, flat floodplain at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers.

A part of the floodplain was reclaimed from the river during the last 3 decades.

One source says that, in the mid-fourteenth century, due to the threat of an epidemic, King U Thong moved his court south into the rich floodplain of the Chao Phraya on an island surrounded by rivers, which was the former seaport city of Ayothaya, or Ayothaya Si Raam Thep Nakhon, the Angelic City of Sri Rama.

His enormous mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile was, in its day, the largest religious complex in Thebes, but unfortunately, the king chose to build it too close to the floodplain and less than two hundred years later, it stood in ruins.

The geographic placement of Fort Henry was extremely poor, sited on a floodplain of the Tennessee River, but Tilghman did not object to its location until it was too late.

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 ')).

On the lower Burdekin floodplain an irrigation area was established in the early 1950s.

This was mostly due to its location on the very edge of the Nile floodplain, with the annual inundation gradually undermining the foundations of this temple, and its neighbours.

Standing on the edge of the Nile floodplain, successive annual inundations gnawed away at the foundations – a famous 1840s lithograph by David Roberts shows the Colossi surrounded by water – and it was not unknown for later rulers to dismantle, purloin, and reuse portions of their predecessors ' monuments.

It was a desire for the riches of Bangweulu's fisheries and game-rich floodplain which motivated King Leopold II of Belgium to insist, in border negotiations between his Congo Free State and the British in Northern Rhodesia, on a land corridor reaching Bangweulu from Katanga.

The floodplain was home to herds of lechwe and the shy sitatunga, the famous semi-aquatic antelopes of the region, but both are believed extinct in the lower Luapula due to hunting and the lack of wildlife management.