Sentence examples for floodplain zone from inspiring English sources

We compared the idealised distributions of assemblages in both the riparian floodplain zone (carabid beetles and spiders) and the benthic instream environment (benthic invertebrates).

The risk of river pollution due to washout (removal of pollutants) from contaminated floodplain water bodies (floodplain lakes and quarries whose origin is related to the large-scale mining of nonmetallic building materials in the floodplain zone) during high magnitude flood periods is analyzed using a combination of one-, two- and three-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling and in situ measurements.

The floodplain zone begins when the river leaves the hills.

The connection of a stream to its floodplain was overlooked in more than a century of land development, which favored building houses in the floodplain zone.

Geologically, the area is underlain by coarse sand with black clay (buried channels zone), black silty clay of recent origin (floodplain zone) and gray/white fine sand of modern beach sediment of paleo-beach ridges and active beach ridge of marine origin (coastal zone; Fig. 2).

Weathered and fractured hard rock terrains with higher elevations and steeper topography have medium to low groundwater potential, whereas floodplain zones are usually associated with good groundwater potential due to the high infiltration rates of the alluvium deposits.

The upstream reach near Weiser, Idaho flows through a broad, 3 km wide river valley (Fig.  4) with extensive floodplain zones and terraces dominated by agricultural development.

With the prominent bedrock and minimal floodplain zones, associated vegetation are relatively limited in both extent and species diversity, thus reducing the range of plants needed to be considered in hydrogeomorphic modeling.

This is generally positively correlated to the efficiency of nutrient retention and use in river ecosystems, and these positive relationships can occur both in the main channel itself and in the riparian and floodplain zones (Jones and Holmes, 1996; Lefebvre et al., 2004; Pinay et al., 2009).

As-contaminated tubewells are also located on the older floodplains (zone 2) to the south east of Ayodhya town near the bank of Ghaghara River.

These areas within the floodplain vadose zone may provide a route for interactions between the floodplain surface and alluvial groundwater, effectively extending the hyporheic zone across the floodplain during high stream stage.