Floodplain Definition

Floodplain Sentence Examples

• Very rich floodplain soils occur along the larger streams. Vast areas of unreclaimable desert exist in the west and south-east.

• Alluvial deposits brought down by mountain streams, and strips of floodplain along larger streams on the plains are very fertile and well repay irrigation.

• In the floodplain there are still areas of enclosed meadow pasture.

• The drift geology map for the LCA also highlights the extensive alluvial deposits associated with the present-day floodplain of the lagan.

• A small area of grazed floodplain grassland with shallow ponds occurs by the River Clyde, southeast of Barons Haugh.