Crossword-Solution: FLOODPLAIN
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Bad place to live when the river rises | 1 answer |
| Riverside, perhaps | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLOODPLAIN (5)
The ferungulate cohort constitutes most of the fauna (91 percent), and this fact indicates a floodplain facies as the most probable depositional environment.
That the faunule is not completely of floodplain type is seen in the absence or rarity of such relatively large carnivores as _Claenodon ferox_, the larger species of _Chriacus_, _Triisodon_, and the entire absence of the Mesonychidae.
Topographically, the area is divisible into three general sections: the extensive Wellington formation and the floodplain of the Arkansas River in western Cowley County; the Flint Hills in the central part of the area; and the "Chautauqua Hills" in the eastern part.
The Wellington formation, which is devoid of sharp relief, borders the floodplain of the Arkansas River through most of its course in Cowley County.
The sandy Arkansas River floodplain exhibits several stages ranging from sparsely vegetated sandy mounds near the river through stages of Johnson grass, willow, and cottonwood, to an elm-hackberry fringe-forest.
Quotes with FLOODPLAIN (1)
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2003–2011).