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As the hills Erode due to Weathering and water flow the Sediment from the hills is transported to the lower Plain . Various Creek s will carry the water further to a river, Lake , Bay , or Ocean . As the Sediment s are deposited during flood conditions in the Floodplain of a creek, the elevation of the floodplain will be raised. As this reduces the channel floodwater capacity, the creek will over time seek new, lower paths, forming Meander s (a curving sinuous path). The leftover higher locations, typically natural Levee s at the margins of the flood channel, will themselves be eroded by lateral stream erosion and from local rainfall and possibly wind transport if the climate is arid and does not support soil-holding grasses. These processes over geologic time will form the plain - a region with little Relief (local changes in elevation), yet with a constant but small slope. EXAMPLES SEE ALSO
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