floodplain deposits

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• floodplain — flood·plain also flood plain (flŭdʹplān ) n. A plain bordering a river and subject to flooding. * * * ▪ geology also called  Alluvial Plain,         flat land area adjacent to a stream, composed of unconsolidated sedimentary deposits (alluvium)… …   Universalium

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Murray Basin — This article is about the geological basin. For the Murray Darling River catchment area, see Murray Darling basin. The Murray Basin is a Cenozoic sedimentary basin in south eastern Australia. The basin is only shallow, but extends into New South… …   Wikipedia

• Devonian Period — Interval of geologic time from 417 to 354 million years ago; it was the fourth period of the Paleozoic Era. During the Devonian, a giant continent was situated in the Southern Hemisphere (see Gondwana), and other landmasses were located in the… …   Universalium

• Exhumed river channel — An exhumed river channel is a ridge of sandstone that remains when the softer flood plain mudstone is eroded away. The process begins with the deposition of sand within a river channel (typically a meandering river) and mud on the adjacent… …   Wikipedia

• Dockum Group — The Dockum is a Late Triassic (approximately late Carnian through Rhaetian, or 223 200 Ma) geologic group found primarily on the Llano Estacado of western Texas and eastern New Mexico with minor exposures in southwestern Kansas, eastern Colorado …   Wikipedia

• Painted Hills — is one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, located in Wheeler County, Oregon It totals 3,132 acres (12.7 km²) and is located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Mitchell, Oregon and 75 miles east of Bend. [cite web | title …   Wikipedia

• Kaiparowits Formation — The Kaiparowits Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in the Kaiparowits Plateau in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, in the southern part of the Utah in the western United States. It is over 2800 feet (850 m) thick, and is… …   Wikipedia

• Narayanganj District — Narayanganj নারায়ণগঞ্জ জেলা   District   Location of Narayanganj in Bangladesh …   Wikipedia