alluvial plain
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of alluvial plain
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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Sediment from the Midwest, distributed through the alluvial plain by regular floods over millions of years, created Louisiana.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2019
Bangladesh has far and away the highest population density of any sizable nation — around 3,000 people per square mile pack the alluvial plain that spans most of the country.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2017
Ferme Descoubet lies at the far western edge of the Gers, near where the dense hills of the Gascon heartland flatten out into the alluvial plain of the Adour River.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2017
An alluvial fan spreads out into a broad alluvial plain.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Many of them are also peculiar as being erected chiefly in brickwork; the great alluvial plain of Lombardy being deficient in building-stone.
From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)
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