A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of...

Look up floodplain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A floodplain is a flat land adjacent to a stream or river that experiences flooding during periods...

floodplain lake, 2. Contrafluent-confluent floodplain lake, 3. Contrafluent floodplain lake, 4. Profundal floodplain lake. A solution lake is a lake occupying...

gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings. Alluvium is also...

Floodplain restoration is the process of fully or partially restoring a river's floodplain to its original conditions before having been affected by the...

The Vega de Granada is a comarca (county, but with no administrative role) in the province of Granada, southeastern Spain. The name refers to the plain...

Acarlar Floodplain Forest (Turkish: Acarlar Gölü Longozu) is a floodplain forest located in Sakarya Province, northwestern Turkey. It is a combination...

A floodplain swamp is a swamp habitat in Florida. They occur in areas of flooding and inundation along streams and rivers. They have a lot in common with...

losses through flood insurance and to reduce flood damages by restricting floodplain development. The program enables property owners in participating communities...

The Lowbidgee Floodplain extends from Balranald to near Waradgery Station, about 20 km (12 mi) west of Hay, in south-western New South Wales. The Lowbidgee...

mapped as an area of inundation. The resulting floodplain map is referred to as the 100-year floodplain. Estimates of the 100-year flood flowrate and other...

A cypress dome is a type of freshwater forested wetland, or a swamp, found in the southeastern part of the United States. They are dominated by the Taxodium...

W.; Erdman, Jori A. (eds.), "Levees and the Making of a Dysfunctional Floodplain", Mississippi Delta Restoration, Estuaries of the World, Cham: Springer...

A várzea forest is a seasonal floodplain forest inundated by whitewater rivers that occurs in the Amazon biome. Until the late 1970s, the definition was...

Waza Logone floodplain is a semi-arid ecosystem in northern Cameroon. Covering 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi), the floodplain is located in the Far North Region...

The Barotse Floodplain, also known as the Bulozi Plain, Lyondo or the Zambezi Floodplain, is one of Africa's great wetlands, on the Zambezi River in the...

The Chowilla floodplain is a floodplain adjacent to the Murray River, upstream of Renmark, South Australia. The floodplain includes the Chowilla Game...

sediment on a floodplain, are often formed due to a breach in the levee, forming a lobe of sediments which progrades onto the adjacent floodplain. Lastly,...

effectively stops infiltration, where the water table is shallow, such as a floodplain, or from intense rain from one or a series of storms. Infiltration also...

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rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms. A floodplain is part of the process, being the smaller area over which the rivers flood...

Velesunio ambiguus, the floodplain mussel, or the billabong mussel (South Australia), is a species of freshwater bivalve in the family Hyriidae. There...

usually earthen and often runs parallel to the course of a river in its floodplain or along low-lying coastlines. Levees can be naturally occurring ridge...

Flood Plain is a 1986 painting by the American artist Andrew Wyeth. It depicts a part of the artist's family's land in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania in the...

The Willamette Floodplain consists of 713 acres (289 ha) of natural grassland, near the Willamette River, that was made a National Natural Landmark in...

through low, flat regions on their way to the sea. These areas may have floodplains, areas that are periodically flooded when there is a high level of water...

Floodplain cultivation in the Wakhan Corridor, Pamir Mountains...

Agrotis ipsilon, the dark sword-grass, black cutworm, greasy cutworm, floodplain cutworm or ipsilon dart, is a small noctuid moth found worldwide. The...

reclaimed polder, replacing it with the 72 km2 (28 sq mi) Biesbosch tidal floodplains. The huge North Sea flood of February 1953 caused the collapse of several...

(9 mi) from its mouth at Moreton Bay. Brisbane is located in the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor and D'Aguilar...