Sentence examples for floodplain alluvium from inspiring English sources

Likewise, high-velocity river currents that accompany torrential rains give rise to shale pebble conglomerates and breccias within sequences of floodplain alluvium.

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The lithology comprises fissile hornblende biotite gneiss, charnockite, granites, quartzites and floodplain alluvium along the river (GSI 1995).

But the EC of the floodplain water is more, which may be due to the infiltration of the domestic sewage, urban waste along floodplain alluvium.

Important controls on the density of stone walls include surficial materials (e.g., ∼4.0 km/km2 on glacial till compared to 1.5 km/km2 on floodplain alluvium), and whether land had been "improved" for agriculture (∼5.2 km/km2).

The role of the deep root systems of many species which allow them to access soil moisture and groundwater in deep soils and weathered material and in floodplain alluvium where there is additional soil moisture and groundwater (Moore and Heilman 2011 ).

The top clayey layer mainly consists of recent (floodplain) to older alluvium (Barind Tract) of Quaternary age.

Four types of surface may be distinguished: floodplains, composed of river alluvium; alluvial fans, wedge-shaped features deposited at the breaks of slopes where rivers emerge from the mountain rim; alluvial fans overlain by sand dunes; and plains buried under loess, deposits of windblown material derived from the continental interior.

Newer Alluvium older floodplains (T1 surface) are locally As-contaminated (Singh 2004; Shah 2008).

Floodplain-related fine-grained alluvium accumulated on top of the lagoonal stratum.

Since European arrival in the Nineteenth Century, parts of the river incised, destroying intact ponds and smothering formerly swampy floodplains with post-incision alluvium.