When the rate at which the river is cutting downwards becomes great enough that overbank flows become infrequent, the river is said to have abandoned its floodplain. Portions of the abandoned floodplain may be preserved as fluvial terraces.

Ecology

Floodplains support diverse and productive ecosystems. They are characterized by considerable variability in space and time, which in turn produces some of the most

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