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... 32 KB (3,822 words) - 12:26, 23 April 2024 |
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... 602 bytes (104 words) - 00:15, 12 March 2022 |
Lake (redirect from Floodplain lake) floodplain lake, 2. Contrafluent-confluent floodplain lake, 3. Contrafluent floodplain lake, 4. Profundal floodplain lake. A solution lake is a lake occupying... 81 KB (9,632 words) - 15:54, 18 April 2024 |
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... 7 KB (650 words) - 12:12, 11 April 2024 |
Velesunio ambiguus, the floodplain mussel, or the billabong mussel (South Australia), is a species of freshwater bivalve in the family Hyriidae. There... 6 KB (342 words) - 18:26, 30 December 2023 |
Floodplain restoration is the process of fully or partially restoring a river's floodplain to its original conditions before having been affected by the... 16 KB (1,657 words) - 06:52, 22 April 2024 |
Vega de Granada (redirect from Floodplain of Granada) The Vega de Granada is a comarca (county, but with no administrative role) in the province of Granada, southeastern Spain. According to the 2007 census... 4 KB (152 words) - 22:01, 12 January 2022 |
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... 918 bytes (84 words) - 04:40, 16 April 2024 |
larger rivers, there is often also a wider floodplain shaped by floodwaters over-topping the channel. Floodplains may be very wide in relation to the size... 39 KB (4,451 words) - 20:37, 3 March 2024 |
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... 2 KB (119 words) - 01:34, 26 November 2020 |
losses through flood insurance and to reduce flood damages by restricting floodplain development. The program enables property owners in participating communities... 48 KB (5,407 words) - 14:26, 10 February 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,545 words) - 02:12, 16 April 2024 |
Mississippi River Delta (redirect from Mississippi floodplains) W.; Erdman, Jori A. (eds.), "Levees and the Making of a Dysfunctional Floodplain", Mississippi Delta Restoration, Estuaries of the World, Cham: Springer... 65 KB (7,767 words) - 21:04, 8 April 2024 |
Brahmaputra River (section Floodplain evolution) 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,... 65 KB (7,310 words) - 23:26, 9 April 2024 |
100-year flood (redirect from 100-year floodplain) 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... 17 KB (2,266 words) - 13:33, 14 December 2023 |
Cypress dome (redirect from Southern floodplain forest) 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... 14 KB (1,404 words) - 16:27, 9 April 2024 |
Várzea forest (redirect from Várzea floodplain forests) 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... 20 KB (2,449 words) - 13:28, 30 November 2023 |
The Chowilla floodplain is a floodplain adjacent to the Murray River, upstream of Renmark, South Australia. The floodplain includes the Chowilla Game... 6 KB (581 words) - 15:46, 21 September 2023 |
Acarlar Floodplain Forest (Turkish: Acarlar Gölü Longozu) is a floodplain forest located in Sakarya Province, northwestern Turkey. It is a combination... 9 KB (871 words) - 07:45, 31 July 2023 |
Floodplain cultivation in the Wakhan Corridor, Pamir Mountains.... 293 KB (27,127 words) - 12:54, 27 April 2024 |
Agrotis ipsilon (redirect from Floodplain cutworm) Agrotis ipsilon, the dark sword-grass, black cutworm, greasy cutworm, floodplain cutworm or ipsilon dart, is a small noctuid moth found worldwide. The... 19 KB (2,343 words) - 04:22, 19 March 2024 |
Flood Plain (painting) (redirect from Floodplain (painting)) 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... 3 KB (228 words) - 02:51, 30 October 2023 |
wetlands (oceanic tides), estuaries (mixed tidal and river waters), floodplains (excess water from overflowed rivers or lakes), springs, seeps and fens... 114 KB (14,528 words) - 03:25, 13 April 2024 |
Songs from the Floodplain is Jon Boden's second solo album. The folk songs are set in a future, post-apocalyptic United Kingdom. Jon Boden (vocals, fiddle... 2 KB (50 words) - 00:56, 15 June 2023 |