User:Cuppysfriend/sandboxFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A floodplain, or flood plain, is flat or nearly flat land adjacent to a stream or river that experiences occasional flooding. Gravel floodplain of glacial river near Snow Mountains in Alaska, 1902. Entrenched river: The Virgin River at the upper end of Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah has almost no floodplain at all. Erosional flooplain with indistinct boundary: The Little Laramie River in Albany County, Wyoming, 1905. Aggradation and planation: The Laramie River meanders across its floodplain in Albany County, Wyoming, 1949. Aggradational floodplain: This floodplain of a small meandering stream in La Plata County, Colorado, is underlain by silt deposited above a dam formed by a terminal moraine left by the Wisconsin Glacier. Oxbow lakes on the floodplain of the White River near Des Arc, Arkansas, 1949. Riparian vegetation on the floodplain of the Lynches River near Johnsonville, South Carolina. These tupelo and cypress trees show the high water mark of flooding.
A floodplain, or flood plain, is flat or nearly flat land adjacent to a stream or river that experiences occasional flooding. Gravel floodplain of glacial river near Snow Mountains in Alaska, 1902. Entrenched river: The Virgin River at the upper end of Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah has almost no floodplain at all. Erosional flooplain with indistinct boundary: The Little Laramie River in Albany County, Wyoming, 1905. Aggradation and planation: The Laramie River meanders across its floodplain in Albany County, Wyoming, 1949. Aggradational floodplain: This floodplain of a small meandering stream in La Plata County, Colorado, is underlain by silt deposited above a dam formed by a terminal moraine left by the Wisconsin Glacier. Oxbow lakes on the floodplain of the White River near Des Arc, Arkansas, 1949. Riparian vegetation on the floodplain of the Lynches River near Johnsonville, South Carolina. These tupelo and cypress trees show the high water mark of flooding.