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Definition of Flood plain
1. Noun. A low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding.
Definition of Flood plain
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of floodplain) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flood Plain
Literary usage of Flood plain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"At this stage, or even l>efore, such parts of the earlier flood-plain as ...
These several tendencies conspire to partially destroy river flood- plain?, ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"At this stage, or even before, such parts of the earlier flood-plain as remain,
are terraces. These several tendencies conspire to partially destroy river ..."
3. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1906)
"flood plain OR TERRACE CLAYS. Along the larger rivers there are broad flats,
sometimes two or more extending along the valley, one above the other, ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1876)
"When a stream crosses a series of synclinal valleys, the flood- plain generally
expands u it ... The surface of a flood-plain is only approximately flat. ..."
5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1908)
"In times of high water a river covers the entire flood-plain and a variable amount
of sand and silt and mud are deposited, thereby building up the general ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"Its surface is about thirty-five feet above the flood-plain of the Tuscarawas ;
it consists of stratified material, containing many granitic pebbles and ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"In a bank-protected channel along a flood-plain reach there is a ... If the
declivity of the flood-plain reach is sufficient to preserve the channel, ..."
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