The temporary inundation of normally dry land as a river, lake or coastal water body exceeds its capacity to hold or convey the water reaching it, driven by intense rainfall, rapid snowmelt, storm surge or a combination of these. Flooding is shaped by drainage basin characteristics, land use and the presence of protective infrastructure, and remains among the most frequent and costly natural hazards worldwide.
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1. Flood (Wikipedia)
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A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide.
Snake River (Wikipedia)
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The river was further altered by catastrophic flooding in the most recent Ice Age, which created such features as the Snake River Canyon and Shoshone Falls.
Multnomah Falls (Wikipedia)
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The waterfall formed around 15,000 years ago at the end of a hanging valley, and was created by the Missoula floods.
Barotse Floodplain (Wikipedia)
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The flood leaves behind a fertile grey to black soil overlaying the Kalahari sands, enriched by silt deposited by the flood as well as humus from vegetation killed by the initial flood, and from decaying aquatic plants left to dry out in the mud.
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