Increment Rates of Overbank Deposition in Major Floods, Table

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river basin flood average thickness of

deposition (metres)

Ohio River January-February 1937 0.0024

Connecticut River March 1936 0.0347

Connecticut River September 1938 0.0223

Kansas River July 1951 0.0299

Source: Adapted from M.G. Wolman and L.B. Leopold, "River Flood Plains:

Some Observations on Their Formation," U.S. Geological Survey

professional paper no. 282-C, 1957, courtesy of the U.S. Department

of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey

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