alluvial plain

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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

It passes first over a fertile alluvial plain, formed, in remote ages, by the Rhone and Durance when they overflowed their banks, as the Oby and Tobol do now.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby