Geography GCSE
Flood plain
What Flood plain means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Flood plain
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The wide, flat area of land either side of a river, built up by successive layers of deposited alluvium during floods and widened by meander migration.
Topics that use Flood plain
- River landscapes in the UK (AQA GCSE)
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