Diagrammatic section to illustrate the formation of saucer-like basins between the levees of streams flowing in a flood plain.
As a deposit of sediment is spread upon the surface, the succession of the annual deposits from this source raises the general level as a broad floor described as the flood plain of the river.
A river actively engaged in aggrading its valley with coarse waste builds a flood plain of comparatively steep gradient and often flows down it in a fairly direct course and through a network of braided channels.
Cross Section of a Flood Plain] A cross section of a flood plain (Fig.
It often occurs that a stream, after having built a flood plain, ceases to aggrade its bed because of a lessened load or for other reasons, such as an uplift of the region, and begins instead to degrade it.
FLOOD PLAIN, the term in physical geography for a plain formed of sediment dropped by a river.
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