overbank
- noun
- Specialized
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sedimento de inundación
- Farmers benefit from the nutrients brought by the overbank sediments after the river floods their fields.
- overbank flow
Examples
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Flow stabilization also reduces the magnitude and frequency of overbank flows, affecting riparian plant species and communities.
Academic text (1997) -
After heavy rain, the river overflowed its banks, creating an overbank that deposited rich sediment on the surrounding floodplain.
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By connecting the channel to the floodplain, high overbank flows also maintain broader productivity and diversity.
Academic text (1997) -
But in my opinion, if I305 had an overbank, I don't think there would have been all the issues about the trims or the wearing down of the wheels.
Blog text (29) -
With a dam of this size, the recreation lake would be confined within the natural channel banks of the river, and inundation of overbank areas and wetlands would be minimal.
Academic text (2001) -
Clearly, half of the peak discharge will not move half of the sediment, half of a migration-motivational flow will not motivate half of the fish, and half of an overbank flow will not inundate half of the floodplain.
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Overbank flows allow ecologically critical exchanges between aquatic sediments and adjacent terrestrial, above-sediment habitats.
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Overbank flow onto the floodplain allows nutrients and detritus from aquatic sediments to become available to water-column biota; plankton are especially known to bloom after flooding.
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The ecologist studied the overbank areas to understand how aquatic plants thrive during seasonal floods.
Synonyms
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Fine soil left by moving water in a river or harbor
Soil, sand or small stones that a river drops when it slows down
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overbank is formed from over ('across') and bank ('river edge'), and it names the thin layer of soil or silt a river leaves when it flows 'over the bank' onto the floodplain.