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• Floodplain — | | [ Virgin River at the upper end of Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah, has almost no floodplain at all.] | | | | |A floodplain, or flood plain, is flat or nearly flat land adjacent to a stream or river that experiences occasional or… …   Wikipedia

• Terrace deposit — A terrace deposit is geological term for a flat platform of land created alongside of a river or sea, where, at some time in the past, the river has cut itself a deeper channel. The former floodplain of the river is therefore at a higher point… …   Wikipedia

• river terrace — ▪ geology       bench or step that extends along the side of a valley and represents a former level of the valley floor. A terrace results from any hydrological or climatic shift that causes renewed downcutting. It generally has a flat top made… …   Universalium

• Stream terrace — Stream terraces are relict features, such as floodplains, from periods when a stream was flowing at a higher elevation and has downcut to a lower elevation. Stream terraces often appear as plateaus on existing valley walls and indicate earlier… …   Wikipedia

• Trabancos River — The Trabancos is a river in Spain which flows between the Zapardiel and the Guareña rivers and is a tributary of the Duero river. The source of the Trabancos is in Moraña, a region in the north of the province of Ávila, near Blascomillán. The… …   Wikipedia

• river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …   Universalium

• Normandy Archaeological Project — The Normandy Archaeological Project was a rescue excavation designed to preserve the archaeological history of the area before it became submerged by the construction of the Normandy Reservoir Dam through funding from the Tennessee Valley… …   Wikipedia

• Degradation (geology) — In geology, degradation refers to the lowering of a fluvial surface, such as a stream bed or floodplain, through erosional processes.[1][2] It is the opposite of aggradation. Degradation is characteristic of channel networks in which either… …   Wikipedia

• Avulsion (river) — In sedimentary geology and fluvial geomorphology, avulsion is the rapid abandonment of a river channel and the formation of a new river channel. Avulsions occur as a result of channel slopes that are much lower than the slope that the river could …   Wikipedia

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