floodplain

How To Use floodplain In A Sentence

• For some 2,000 years the central bridge of Florence has crossed this narrow point in the Arno at least since 59 B.C. when Romans settled the untamed floodplain that became a colony called Florentia. Ponte Vecchio, a Bridge That Spans Centuries
• In time, as the Ecca Sea filled with sediment and the deltas prograded basinward, large tracts of river channels and floodplains emerged.
• Thin coals mark periods of swamp conditions on the floodplain, although some palaeosol profiles suggest relatively well-drained conditions, including a thin calcrete.
• If you live on the coast, in a floodplain, near a river or an inland waterway. Houston Chronicle
• Cymbopogon spp. (ganaune gans) is another short grass species that occurs in distinct associations on the floodplain and is eaten by greater one-horned rhinoceroses and elephants. Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
• We spend billions each year in futile attempts to prevent floodplains from flooding, barrier islands from migrating, chaparral from burning, and predators from predation.
• The association of the cherts with carbonaceous sandstones and lacustrine shales in the Rhynie Cherts Unit indicates sinter deposition interrupted alluvial floodplain sedimentation of mud and sand.
• Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements, but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief.
• Building over the floodplain will cause increased inundation lower down.
• Beyond it, so green and flat and gorgeous that it looked cultivated, was a floodplain grazing lawn. Times, Sunday Times