- Increment Rates of Overbank Deposition in Major Floods, Table
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▪ Tableriver basin flood average thickness ofdeposition (metres)Ohio River January-February 1937 0.0024Connecticut River March 1936 0.0347Connecticut River September 1938 0.0223Kansas River July 1951 0.0299Source: Adapted from M.G. Wolman and L.B. Leopold, "River Flood Plains:Some Observations on Their Formation," U.S. Geological Surveyprofessional paper no. 282-C, 1957, courtesy of the U.S. Departmentof the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
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