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A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands [1] is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of the enclosing valley, and experience flooding during periods of high discharge. [2] The soils usually consist of clays, silts, sands, and gravels deposited during floods. [3]
Observations made on long geologic times scales (≥10 6 annum) typically reveal much about slower, larger-magnitude geologic processes such as tectonism [5] from a regional to even global scale. Evaluation on geologically short time scales (10 3 -10 5 a ) can reveal much about the relatively shorter climatic cycles, [ 5 ] local to regional ...
The difference between a flood plain and an alluvial plain is: a flood plain represents areas experiencing flooding fairly regularly in the present or recently, whereas an alluvial plain includes areas where a flood plain is now and used to be, or areas which only experience flooding a few times a century. [8] Chengdu Plain, Sichuan
Flood geology (also creation geology or diluvial geology) is a pseudoscientific attempt to interpret and reconcile geological features of the Earth in accordance with a literal belief in the Genesis flood narrative, the flood myth in the Hebrew Bible.
In geology, a backswamp is a type of depositional environment commonly found in a floodplain.It is where deposits of fine silts and clays settle after a flood.These deposits create a marsh-like landscape that is often poorly drained and usually lower than the rest of the floodplain.
The terms river morphology and its synonym stream morphology are used to describe the shapes of river channels and how they change in shape and direction over time. The morphology of a river channel is a function of a number of processes and environmental conditions, including the composition and erodibility of the bed and banks (e.g., sand, clay, bedrock); erosion comes from the power and ...
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Flood geology (also creation geology or diluvial geology) interprets the geological history of the Earth in terms of the global flood described in Genesis 6–9. Pages in category "Flood geology" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.