Sentence examples for plain formed from inspiring English sources

For this reason, the term delta is now normally applied, without reference to shape, to the exposed and submerged plain formed by a river at its mouth.

Mt. Vesuvius is a stratovolcano located in Southern Italy within a graben (Campania Plain) formed in the Plio-Pleistocene.

The Niger Delta is basically an alluvial plain formed by the deposition and built-up of fine-grained sediments eroded and transported to the area by the River Niger and its tributaries (Fig. 1).

The Bengal delta plain, formed by the Ganga Padma Meghna Brahmaputra river basin, covering several districts of West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh is considered as the high As-affected alluvial basin (Chetia et al. 2011).

The Kumamoto Plain extends across the northeastern part of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, and consists of a diluvial plateau on the western slope of Mt. Aso (Hoshizumi et al. 2004) and an alluvial plain formed by the Shirakawa and Midorikawa rivers (Ishizaka et al. 1995).

Vast areas of outwash, a glacial plain formed of sediments deposited by meltwater at the terminus of a glacier, are covered by forests.

The Jianghan Plain forms the middle to lower part of the Hanjiang drainage basin.

The Kolkheti lowlands (Colchis, Colchian plain) form the central part of the extensive coastal lowlands along the Black Sea coast of Georgia.

The north easterly elongated Goha and Shinamba Hills, which rise to 150 m above the surrounding plain, form the only significant topographical feature.

Shale-derived soils of the Cumberland Plain form an island of unsuitable habitat at the heart of the overall distributional range of the species, and the southern populations are located at the edge of the sandstones to which the species is restricted.

Elsewhere, there are extensive coastal plains, formed by the sea when its level was higher.