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- Mississippi river basins, heavily exploit floodplains. Agricultural and urban regions have developed near or on floodplains to take advantage of the rich soil...
- the course of a river in its floodplain or along low-lying coastlines. Naturally occurring levees form on river floodplains following flooding, where sediment...
- is 10 750 km2 when the floodplains of several tributaries are taken into account, such as the Luena Flats. The Barotse Floodplain is the second largest...
- refers to loose sediments of all types deposited by running water in floodplains or in alluvial fans or related landforms. However, the meaning of the...
- 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...
- The Lowbidgee Floodplain extends from Balranald to near Waradgery Station, about 20 km (12 mi) west of Hay, in south-western New South Wales, Australia...
- 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...
- Adelaide and Mary River Floodplains are a 2,687 square kilometres (1,037 sq mi) region comprising the adjoining floodplains of the Adelaide and Mary...
- W.; Erdman, Jori A. (eds.), "Levees and the Making of a Dysfunctional Floodplain", Mississippi Delta Restoration, Estuaries of the World, Cham: Springer...
- groundwater. Anthropogenic impacts on floodplain mostly target the lateral connectivity between rivers and their floodplains, so many restoration methods focus...