Sentence examples for fluvial plain from inspiring English sources

In January 2005, the Huygens probe landed in what looked like a fluvial plain with channels carved by methane.

The method was applied to shallow (0 to 15 m) aquifers of the fluvial plain of southern Lombardy (Northern Italy).

During the Middle Jurassic, the regional environment of Curio Bay, southeast South Island, New Zealand, was a fluvial plain marginal to volcanic uplands.

Around this time the river Tana did not incise much and shaped an extensive fluvial plain, whose remnants can now be found around 1150 m altitude.

This fluvial plain has been incising during the last 2.8 Ma, whereby the incision rate changed in time due to changing uplift rate and volcanic events.

The ∼60,000-year interval (∼1.845 1.785 Ma abovee Tuff IB records evidence for lake and fluvial sequences, volcanic eruptions, eolian and pedogenic processes, and the development of a fluvial plain in the western margin of the basin.

Bound by the Himalaya in the north and the Craton in the south, the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) is one of the largest fluvial plains of the world.

The recent progress made in the acquired knowledge of the Rhône River basin palaeodynamics, occurring simultaneously to the development of intensive rescue archaeological surveys on fluvial plains, provides information on the burying and post-depositional processes of archaeological records for all of the Holocene cultural phases.

Fluvial plains are in fact pediments developed when running water deposits material in valleys.

Geologically, five most important lithounits are present in this area, hornblende biotite gneiss, charnockite, quartzite, granite, and alluvial and fluvial plains (Fig. 1).

The Farewell Formation consists predominantly of sandstones which were deposited in fluvial braid plain and coastal plain (King and Thrasher 1996).