How To Use Floodplain In A Sentence
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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
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In time, as the Ecca Sea filled with sediment and the deltas prograded basinward, large tracts of river channels and floodplains emerged.
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Thin coals mark periods of swamp conditions on the floodplain, although some palaeosol profiles suggest relatively well-drained conditions, including a thin calcrete.
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If you live on the coast, in a floodplain, near a river or an inland waterway.
Houston Chronicle
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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
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We spend billions each year in futile attempts to prevent floodplains from flooding, barrier islands from migrating, chaparral from burning, and predators from predation.
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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.
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Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements, but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief.
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Building over the floodplain will cause increased inundation lower down.
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Beyond it, so green and flat and gorgeous that it looked cultivated, was a floodplain grazing lawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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Communities range from xeric habitats such as scrub and scrubby flatwoods to hydric habitats such as floodplain forest and blackwater stream.
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Many of the terai grasslands and floodplain forests support five deer species (swamp deer, sambar, axis deer, hog deer, and barking deer), an unusually diverse assemblage of cervids.
Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
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The reward was a view of a reed-edged lake, snow-capped mountains and a brilliant green mossy floodplain where wild horses grazed.
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Where we emerged on the floodplain below the fall line, the leaf mat beneath the trees had the telltale signs of abandoned farmsteads long surrendered to the wild.
Fire The Sky
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Ranchers graze cattle and water buffalo on floodplain grasslands to produce meat and secondarily dairy products.
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The period from 1150 BC to AD 150 witnessed active erosion and sedimentation on floodplains and in channels.
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Pale swallow-worts invade a wide variety of habitats including old fields, open woodlands, pastures, roadsides, and floodplains.
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Floodplain forests of bottomlands are dominated by sycamore, black walnut, Kentucky coffeetree, sugarberry, and honey locust.
Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA)
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In Bangladesh, settlement of populations in high risk areas such as floodplains and river deltas increases vulnerability.
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Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus), puku (Kobus vardoni), southern reedbuck (Redunca arundinum), and sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei) are also common inhabitants of the floodplains, although these species tend to prefer the reed beds or more wooded vegetation on the margins of the floodplains.
Zambezian flooded grasslands
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August is the dry season, and wildlife concentrates around the shrinking waterholes of this vast floodplain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beyond it, so green and flat and gorgeous that it looked cultivated, was a floodplain grazing lawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nonetheless, we did not detect differences in species diversity between the floodplain and upland landforms.
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We also have information on whether a property is located within a floodplain or not.
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Apparently, the dam is already under a lot of stress because of all the silt that the river carries that it used to dump on the floodplain.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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A trail runs down to the tamarisk forest on the floodplain of the River Jordan, which forms the border between Jordan and Israel.
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Approximately 3,000 red lechwe (Kobus leche), move eastwards from Liuwa Plain to the Zambezi floodplain in the dry season.
Western Zambezian grasslands
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If you live on the coast, in a floodplain, near a river or an inland waterway.
Houston Chronicle
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Vertical vegetational zonation characterizes the Alaska Range and Wrangell Mountains, beginning with dense bottom-land stands of white spruce and cottonwood on the floodplains and low terraces of the Copper and Susitna Rivers.
Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey)
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The annual spring snowmelt freshets of the Fraser River system pose the principal flood hazard to those occupying its floodplain areas.
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They knew that this was a floodplain: it is flat land adjacent to a river subject to flooding.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forests, fields, orchards, fencerows, hedgerows, islands, railroad tracks, floodplains and grown-over strip mines are just some of the places the white and giant morels can be found.
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Above these sedimentary rocks is a sequence of interbedded alluvial floodplain deposits and palaeosols.
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I crossed a soggy floodplain and sat on a bench.
Times, Sunday Times
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The seasonally inundated plain habitat covered the remainder of the floodplain, except for the permanently wet areas.
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A major threat to lechwe is the building of hydroelectric dams which eliminates their seasonal floodplain habitat.
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Tidal floodplain populations in England are strongly biased towards deprived communities.
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Greater floodplain occupancy is putting more people at risk to the flood hazard.
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New Government planning guidance advises local authorities to use areas outside a floodplain first.
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Bangkok is located on a floodplain composed of deltaic deposits, including the well-known soft Bangkok clay, underlain by alternating layers of clays and sands that extend to depths of more than 1,000 m.
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The white monkshood (Aconitum reclinatum) is found in moist mountain woods and adjacent floodplains of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and is endangered in the state (Wiegman, 1985, p. 57).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
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No one in their right mind would build a capital city on his floodplain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sedimentary environment was a broad, flat floodplain with meandering streams and numerous shallow lakes or playas that could have become alkaline or saline during drier times.
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During low stages on the Mississippi River, flood control locks are opened seasonally to drain the interior floodplain waters.
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Communities range from xeric habitats such as scrub and scrubby flatwoods to hydric habitats such as floodplain forest and blackwater stream.
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Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and oribi (Ourebia ourebi) also frequent extensive floodplains and grasslands, although the latter favor less waterlogged areas such as termitaries, where herbs and woody growth provide food and cover.
Zambezian flooded grasslands
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Floodplains have alkaline soils that support greasewood, alkali sacaton, seepweed, and shadscale.
Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)
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I crossed a soggy floodplain and sat on a bench.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cottonwood and willow trees, typical of a desert floodplain, are plentiful.
Houston Chronicle
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No one told us how they were shaped as silt deposits, called loess, that blew in from the Missouri River floodplain, beginning about 30,000 years ago.
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Increasingly, however, the floodplain has become empoldered and compartmentalised for flood protection and agriculture.
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On the small dambos and edges of floodplains reedbuck and puku graze on the short grass while shaggy-haired waterbuck pop up here and there in the most unlikely places.
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You can't save beaches and wetlands with seawalls, and you can't wall off river deltas and floodplains that contain much of the world's most productive agricultural land.
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The ridges of Ecoregion 70f are forested while its floodplains and broad, clay-filled, flat-bottomed, preglacial valleys are used for general farms.
Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)
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Eastward lay the Sonoma floodplain, an expanse of diked and drained bay lands, with tidal creeks and sloughs shining in the distance.
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No one in their right mind would build a capital city on his floodplain.
Times, Sunday Times
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This area is a big floodplain, an alluvia plain to be technical about it, laced with rivers and streams, and they are continuing to swell as the rain runs off from up north.
CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2005
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Swamp forests of bald cypress and tupelo grow in low-lying areas such as floodplains or abandoned river channels.
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He said the land was not suitable for building, being so close to the floodplain, and said the area regularly became waterlogged and that floodwater came up to his house.
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The central floodplain is watered by the Chao Phraya River and its tributaries.
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Only last month a herd of cows was stranded on the River Exe floodplain, just north of Tiverton, Devon.
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Palaeosol horizons are interbedded with these units, representing the pedogenic alteration of exposed floodplain sediments.
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At this point, the steep bluffs lie approximately 30 m above the floodplain below.
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It is a rich mosaic of savanna grassland, thickets and woodlands; grasslands: low-lying, hygrophilous and floodplain; sedge swamps, freshwater reed and papyrus swamps; riverine woodlands, swamp forests and forested dunes; the lake with its uniquely variable salinity regime;, underwater macrophyte beds, saline reed swamps, salt marshes and mangroves; rocky and sandy shores, coral reefs and submarine canyons.
Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
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Most of the sedimentary fill of the Chiang Mai basin lies beneath a blanket of Quaternary floodplain deposits.
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It must have been a truly awesome sight to watch a herd of brontosaurs crossing a Mesozoic floodplain; evoking the same sense of awe, and puniness in one's own being in comparison, as one would feel when observing whales close up.
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Heidiphyllum elongatum was probably a relatively low-growing shrubby voltzialean conifer that formed dominant to monospecific thickets in areas of higher water table on a floodplain, or on sandbars within the braided river channels.
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Above these sedimentary rocks is a sequence of interbedded alluvial floodplain deposits and palaeosols.
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To test for differences in mean physical and chemical soil characteristics between the floodplain and upland landforms, we used non-parametric Mann-Whitney tests.
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Of the total 189 plots sampled, 56 were on floodplain landforms and 133 were on upland landforms.
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But as the rains progress, they abandon the tall, rank grass in the floodplains and woodlands in search of more palatable foodstuff.
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In Mississippi, the region includes only the larger, wider floodplains of Ecoregion 65, the lower Pearl, Leaf/Pascagoula, and Tombigbee rivers.
Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA)
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Two azonal vegetation types, mangrove communities at the major river mouths and swamp vegetation in floodplains on the lower reaches of the larger rivers, are also found within the ecoregion.
Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands
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Floodplains supported softwood forests and bountiful warm-season riparian food resources such as fish and mussels.
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Above these sedimentary rocks is a sequence of interbedded alluvial floodplain deposits and palaeosols.
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Palaeosol horizons are interbedded with these units, representing the pedogenic alteration of exposed floodplain sediments.
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And I can't speak for every citizen in the city of Cedar Rapids, which is a city of 120,000 people, but anecdotally, yes, many of the people that we talked to said because they were told they live in a 500-year floodplain, meaning something like this only happens every 500 years, that they did not need flood insurance, and so they didn't buy it.
CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008
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It is thought the six massive dinosaurs died in a floodplain region and were preserved in mud.
The Sun
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It is thought the six massive dinosaurs died in a floodplain region and were preserved in mud.
The Sun
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Crevasse splay deposits are floodplain deposits formed by the breaching of a levee, typically during flood events.
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Where found alternating with massive mudstone and thin coal seams, these sands probably formed as sheet-like floodplain deposits.
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Construction of levees and embankments prevents the floodplain from performing this function and transfers the problem further downstream to areas which were not subject to flooding.
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The central floodplain is watered by the Chao Phraya River and its tributaries.
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Thousands of legs, like a giant millipede crawling across the floodplain, kick up puffs of blush-colored dust.
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Inland wetlands are common on floodplains along rivers and streams and in other low-lying areas.
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They knew that this was a floodplain: it is flat land adjacent to a river subject to flooding.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gently undulating plains on Cretaceous sediments surround the floodplains, often with a duricrust forming a dense gravel or rock (gibber) surface pavement.
Simpson desert
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Because most of the Intervale lies within the floodplain of the Winooski River, the land here is protected from the usual pressures of suburban sprawl.
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In reality, I was looking for new digs, a climate healthier than the overpriced acres of buggy floodplain my wife, Kitty, and I owned.
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Unlike the Upper Amazon Basin where the boundary between the várzea and terra firme is relatively indistinct, on the central Amazon floodplain the ecological difference between these forest types is dramatic because of distinct soil quality, forest structure, and floristics of non-flooded versus flooded land.
Monte Alegre varzea
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In time, as the Ecca Sea filled with sediment and the deltas prograded basinward, large tracts of river channels and floodplains emerged.
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The interior of the basin is underlain by the Quaternary floodplain deposits and terraces associated with the Mae Ping River.
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Cottonwood and willow trees, typical of a desert floodplain, are plentiful.
Houston Chronicle
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On the small dambos and edges of floodplains reedbuck and puku graze on the short grass while shaggy-haired waterbuck pop up here and there in the most unlikely places.
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Seven major grassland types have been identified, which consitute about 20% of the park's area: Themeda villosa forms a tall grass cover in clearings in the sal forest; Saccharum-Narenga associations grow as mixed and pure stands of tall grass (Saccharum spontaneum is one of the first species to colonize newly created sandbanks); Arundo-Phragmites associations form dense tall stands along stream beds on the floodplain and around lakes; Imperata cylindrica grows prolificallyin areas within the park which were occupied by villages prior to their evacuation in 1964; various short grasses and herbs grown on exposed sandbanks during the dry months and become much more prolific with the outset of rain in May (e.g. Polygonum plebeium, Persicaria spp. and sedges such as Cyperus, Kyllinga and Mariscus spp.); Cynodon dactylon and Chrysopogon aciculatus and other short grasses grow in highest areas near riverine forest all the year round; and low-lying stands of Saccharum spontaneum, which are destroyed by repeated flooding early in the monsoon.
Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal
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Repeatedly, descriptions of lignite, which may be associated with floodplain sequences, are reported.
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It must have been a truly awesome sight to watch a herd of brontosaurs crossing a Mesozoic floodplain; evoking the same sense of awe, and puniness in one's own being in comparison, as one would feel when observing whales close up.
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The objective of this study was to characterize the vegetation of forested floodplain wetlands along a 66 km stretch of river within the upper Passaic River watershed.
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The Park extends from coastal and riverine floodplains to lowland hills and basins some 160 km south, and from the dissected Arnhem Land plateau and sandstone escarpment in the east to the wooded Koolpinyah surface savanna 120 km west.
Kakadu National Park, Australia
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Within the miombo vegetation, "islands" of other vegetation types, such as eutrophic savanna on richer soils, river terraces and floodplains, provide superior forage.
Angolan Miombo woodlands
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August is the dry season, and wildlife concentrates around the shrinking waterholes of this vast floodplain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The remains were unearthed from a former floodplain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vertical vegetational zonation characterizes the Alaska Range and Wrangell Mountains, beginning with dense bottom-land stands of white spruce and cottonwood on the floodplains and low terraces of the Copper and Susitna Rivers.
Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey)
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The remains were unearthed from a former floodplain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perched high on an escarpment above the Cibolo creek floodplain, this area was once an important hunting area for Apache and later the Comanche peoples.
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The floodplains contained cottonwood, willow, box elder, and soft maple.
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Calcareous and gypsiferous soils are common along many river floodplains in the subarctic and arctic regions of Alaska as well as in more arid regions such as deserts and grasslands.
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The vegetation survey was conducted in forested and unforested fen and floodplain wetlands in 1994 and 2001, and in a forested floodplain wetland in 2001 in order to document plant species occurring in these rare mountain habitats.
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Over time (decades to centuries) the river course meanders across the floodplain making the várzea an ever-changing and heterogeneous landscape with a diversity of fluvial elements such as oxbow lakes, levees, meander swails, and point bars.
Monte Alegre varzea
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In time, as the Ecca Sea filled with sediment and the deltas prograded basinward, large tracts of river channels and floodplains emerged.
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The wetlands of the Atrato floodplain are of special interest, and Polygonum acuminatum, Montrichardia arborescens, Raphia taedigera and cativo Prioria copaifera are typical species.
Los Katíos National Park, Colombia
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The proposed alternate project must not be located in the regulatory floodway and will have to be insured if located in the 100-year floodplain.
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At the same time, urban parks were seen as ecological reserves, acting as floodplains, wildlife corridors, or natural habitats.
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Effects of flooding duration on species richness, floristic composition and forest structure in river margin habitat in Amazonian blackwater floodplain forests: implications for future design of protected areas.
Jaú National Park, Brazil
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Grassland types include hydrophilous grassland on sandy riverine soils dominated by Acroceras macrum and Ischaemum arcuatum; high-lying grasslands on sand, a diverse fire-subclimax community, palm-veld with Hyphaene coriacea and Phoenix reclinata, another fire-subclimax community; Echinochloa floodplain grassland; and low-lying grasslands on clay.
Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
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Over time (decades to centuries), the river course meanders across the floodplain making the várzea an ever-changing and heterogeneous landscape with a diversity of fluvial elements such as oxbow lakes, levees, meander swales, and point bars.
Purus varzea
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All three components are tightly linked in a cooperative research program to reforest Missouri floodplains once dominated by oaks and other native trees.
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Above these sedimentary rocks is a sequence of interbedded alluvial floodplain deposits and palaeosols.
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Around the Barotse floodplain, seasonal waterlogging or flooding suppresses tree growth, and Baikiaea woodlands give way to grasslands.
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
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This could allow for adhesion to hooves and fur as well as boots and motorized vehicle tires and suggests a potential for plants to be dispersed outside of floodplains.
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Transient flooding with fresh water is a world-wide phenomenon in river floodplains and wetlands as well as other terrestrial ecosystems.
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The matrix from Fish Hut above Dutch Gap is darker, organic-rich clay containing significant sand and mica, suggesting a crevasse splay, where sand was deposited on the floodplain after a levee break.
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Trees well suited to the periodically inundated floodplain include live oak, laurel oak, American elm, and water locust.
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For example, a million individuals of white-eared kob undertake a massive migration of over 1500 km, following the availability of floodplain grasses.
Saharan flooded grasslands
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This may not be an unexpected outcome given that the sediment on the floodplains may not have contained sufficient seeds or vegetative propagules of this species.
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Scattered through the dry lands of eastern and southern Africa - on numerous grasslands, plains, fossil lake beds, hill slopes, and floodplains - is the springhare (or springhaas).
15 Agouti
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Over time (from decades to millennia) these river courses meander across the floodplain, resulting in ever-changing geomorphology and heterogeneous landscape with a diversity of elements such as oxbow lakes, levees, meander swales, and point bars.
Iquitos varzea
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During this period, total cover of many shade-intolerant spring ephemeral forb species is significantly greater on upland landforms than floodplain landforms.
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A similar pattern is apparent in the vertebrate record, though floodplain aestivation assemblages are known.
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The 1994 fen sites were selected to investigate the vegetative communities in the forested and unforested portions of the fen, while the floodplain site was chosen for a separate investigation of red maple dynamics.
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Inland wetlands are common on floodplains along rivers and streams and in other low-lying areas.
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Associated sites include the dense cluster of prehistoric shell middens in the constricted Mississippi River floodplain.
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The floodplain soils are more nutrient rich than the upland soils because annual inundation from the whitewater rivers (carrying suspended solids from the Andes) results in the deposition of organic and mineral sediments on the forest floor.
Solimões-Japurá moist forest
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Grassland types include hydrophilous grassland on sandy riverine soils dominated by Acroceras macrum and Ischaemum arcuatum; high-lying grasslands on sand, a diverse fire-subclimax community, palm-veld with Hyphaene coriacea and Phoenix reclinata, another fire-subclimax community; Echinochloa floodplain grassland; and low-lying grasslands on clay.
Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
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These units include several vegetation units from Bohn et al. These include areas of lowland to submontane beech and mixed beech forests, lowland to submontane acidophilous oak and mixed oak forests, sub-Mediterranean and meso-supra-Mediterranean downy oak forests, fen and swamp forests, as well as floodplain, estuarine, and freshwater polder vegetation in the Aquitanian Plain, Armorican Massif, Paris Basin, and Netherlands.
Atlantic mixed forests
