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Alluvial plain   /ˌælˈuviəl pleɪn/   Listen
Alluvial plain

noun
1.
A flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water.  Synonym: alluvial flat.






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"Alluvial plain" Quotes from Famous Books



... strewn with pebbles, an old shingle-beach, for we were on the ancient edges of the sea, before the river had built up Iraq.[6] The stones at Beled had been the first signs that we were off the alluvial plain. South of Baghdad it was reported that a reward of L100 would be paid (by whom I never heard) to the finder of any sort of stone. And now, after our long sojourn in stoneless lands, these pebbles were a temptation, and there was a deal of surreptitious chucking-about. One watched with ...
— The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad • Edward John Thompson



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