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alluvial plain
noun as in flood plain
Example Sentences
Tens of thousands of acres of new crops planted in the alluvial plain began to choke on the retch of the mines.
Four hundred yards apart the two parties emerged from the sublime portal of the cañon and entered upon the little alluvial plain.
It forms part of the great alluvial plain of the Ganges, which divides it into two unequal portions.
In this distance no rock strata appeared, nor any formation other than a jutting ridge of sand, or an alluvial plain.
By a slight ascent westward of the alluvial plain we reach Kilmartin, a village with a large modern church.
It consists of a vast alluvial plain, on the left bank of the Indus, 216 m. long and 48 broad.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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