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  2. Floodplain - Wikipedia

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    Paraná River floodplain, at its confluence with the headstream of the Paranaíba (on the right) and the Verde River, near Panorama, Brazil A floodplain after a one-in-10-year flood on the Isle of Wight Gravel floodplain of a glacial river near the Snow Mountains in Alaska, 1902 The Laramie River meanders across its floodplain in Albany County, Wyoming, 1949 This aggradational floodplain of a ...

  3. Water table (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Brick water table at Reads Landing School in Minnesota. A water table is a projection of lower masonry on the outside of a wall, slightly above the ground, or at the top of a wainscot section of a wall (in this case also known as a sill).

  4. Bedrock river - Wikipedia

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    A bedrock river is a river that has little to no alluvium mantling the bedrock over which it flows. However, most bedrock rivers are not pure forms; they are a combination of a bedrock channel and an alluvial channel. The way one can distinguish between bedrock rivers and alluvial rivers is through the extent of sediment cover. [1]

  5. Des Plaines, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Des Plaines (/ d ɪ s ˈ p l eɪ n z /) is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States.Per the 2020 census, the population was 60,675. [4] The city is a suburb of Chicago and is located just north of O'Hare International Airport.

  6. Schist - Wikipedia

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    A schist showing characteristic scaly schistose texture caused by platy micas. Schist (/ ˈ ʃ ɪ s t / SHIST) is a medium-grained metamorphic rock showing pronounced schistosity (named for the rock).

  7. Watertown, New York - Wikipedia

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    Watertown is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, New York, United States.It is approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of the Thousand Islands, along the Black River, about 5 miles (8 km) east of where it flows into Lake Ontario.

  8. Morehead City, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The city of Morehead City was laid out using a grid plan, whereby city blocks were equally laid out with each block consisting of 16 equally divided lots. The city blocks stretched from 1st Street to 15th Street, incorporating a system of alleys forming an "H" shape that enabled businesses and residential homes to be served from the alleys ...

  9. Oak - Wikipedia

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    An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.They have spirally arranged leaves, often with lobed edges, and a nut called an acorn, borne within a cup.