fluvial terrace

When a stream degrades, it leaves behind a fluvial terrace.

The middle and lower parts of the Koito feature fluvial terraces.

Fluvial terraces can be used to measure the rate at which either a stream or river is downcutting its valley.

Geologically ancient floodplains are often represented in the landscape by fluvial terraces.

It is joined to the plain by a hillside which corresponds to a former fluvial terrace of the Loire.

Its entire municipal area is situated on a fluvial terrace of the Lower Rhine region and therefore very flat.

Fluvial terraces are remnants of the former floodplain of a stream of river.

The LBK people settled on fluvial terraces and in the proximities of rivers.

The name reflects the former location on the Fluvial terrace of an arm of the Danube river, prior to its regulation.

There are two basic types of fluvial terraces, fill terraces and strath terraces.

Zoar Valley's most renowned forest stands may be those found on raised fluvial terraces along Cattaraugus Creek.

Srinagar city mainly rests over the quaternary fluvial terraces of boulders and sand deposited by Alaknanda river.

Likewise, the TT-2 fluvial terrace of Trabancos cuts some Duero River terraces.

Valleys have been formed by fluvial terraces of the Chira River and Piura River.

Because of the manner in which they form, fluvial terraces are underlain by fluvial sediments of highly variable thickness.

That causes effects such as meanders cut down as gorges, steps where the river suddenly starts flowing faster, and fluvial terraces derived from old floodplains.

The most common sources of the variations in rivers and streams that create fluvial terraces are vegetative, geomorphic, and hydrologic responses to climate.

Fluvial terraces are elongated terraces that flank the sides of floodplains and fluvial valleys all over the world.

The mound is part of a fluvial terrace, which was separated by a huge moat surrounding it on all sides, with the exception of the east-south-east side.

The study of fluvial terraces has revealed coarse sand and gravel alternating with terraces of silt, clay and fine sand.

Second, other benches are narrow fluvial terraces created by the abandonment of a floodplain by a river or stream and entrenchment of the river valley into it.

The Umpqua Interior Foothills ecoregion is a complex of foothills and narrow valleys containing fluvial terraces and floodplains.

Since the rail line was built north of the edge of the Kelsterbach fluvial terrace, it was well outside the centre of the village when it was opened.

The region's broad fluvial terraces once supported oak savanna and prairies, featuring Garry oak, camas, sedges, tufted hairgrass, fescue, and California oatgrass.

In the southern reaches of Redwood Valley is the Ricetti bench, a fluvial terrace the features crimson red soil, where Mendocino County's first vineyards were planted in the 1850s.