Sentences with phrase «alluvial plains»

Cities have always been engines of growth, innovation and opportunity, drawing people from afar since the ancient settlements of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus, and the Yellow River gave urban form to «a certain energized crowding» along their alluvial plains.

Thirdly, discussion of sea level rises usually neglects any discussion of the dynamic geology of coastlines, river deltas, and alluvial plains.

Humans have advanced as resources have become available; old human civilizations expanded on fertile alluvial plains that provided nutrients and irrigated water for their crops.

Continue by coach past vineyards built on rich alluvial plains, which produce world class wines, to Nelson.

The alluvial plains are suitable for more crops and garden vegetables, especially when properly irrigated.140

The soil structure falls into three main categories: rather naked and rough mountaintops; slopes that have been smoothed and covered with deposits of limestone, sandstone, or marly clay, and small alluvial plains.

Virtually all the action during previous decades had focused on southern Iraq, in the low - lying alluvial plain that merges with the Persian Gulf.

The site was on a river called the Çarsamba; around it lay marsh, fertile alluvial plain, and woods and steppe that were probably teeming with big game.

Along the clay road, Mike's red truck cuts slowly between tall rows of sugarcane, sassy, silvery tassels waving in the October sun, extending across an alluvial plain as far as the eye can see.

In general, Burnaby real estate's topography could be summarized as featuring hills, valleys, ridges and an alluvial plain.

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Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.

Alluvial deposits of varying fertility cover the relatively flat landscapes of the coastal plains.

The hydrological cycle shapes the soft alluvial soil of the Assam plains and nurtures the agrarian economy.