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
The Brahmaputra valley is an alluvial plain, about 450 m. in length, with an average breadth of 50 m., lying almost east and west.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
