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Floodplains
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Floodplains
Flat land found either side of a river in its middle and lower courses and often containing meanders
- Migrating meanders can push back or erode the valley sides to create a wide, flat valley bottom
- The flat valley created be deposition and erosion, are surrounded on both sides by the low hills called bluffs.
- Flooding of the river can deposit silt or alluvium that flattens the landscape by covering it.
- The flat valley created be deposition and erosion, are surrounded on both sides by the low hills called bluffs.
- Migrating meanders can push back or erode the valley sides to create a wide, flat valley bottom
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- Geography Mind Map on Floodplains, created by Niamh Walker on 07/10/2014.
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