Floodplains

thumb|350px|Paraná River floodplain, at its confluence with the headstream of the Paranaíba (on the right) and the Verde River, near Panorama, Brazil thumb|right|A floodplain after a one-in-10-year flood on the Isle of Wight thumb|right|Gravel floodplain of a glacial river near the Snow Mountains in Alaska, 1902 thumb|right|The Laramie River [[meanders across its floodplain in Albany County, Wyoming, 1949]] thumb|right| This aggradational floodplain of a small meandering stream in La Plata County, Colorado, is underlain by silt deposited above a dam formed by a terminal [[moraine left by the W

thumb|right|Flood-meadow near Hohenau an der March thumb|right|The same meadow in spring

restoration of a river's floodplain