What are the characteristics of a flood plain?

      

Give the characteristics of a flood plain.

  

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Maurice
(i) Some flood plains have marshes or swamps.

(ii) Some have braided channels.

(iii) They have a gently sloping gradient or flat surface.

(iv) They have thick alluvial or fertile soils.

(v) Some have deltas.

(vi) Some have wide river valleys.

(vii) They have raised river beds.

(viii) Flood plains have river bluffs.

(ix) They have bends and some have Ox-bow lakes at their edges.

(x) Some have deferred tributaries.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on June 7, 2017 at 09:09


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