Title: Plain Landform: Types, Location and Importance | Earth Eclipse
Headings: What is Plain Landform?
What is Plain Landform?
Types of Plain Landforms
Depositional Plains
Furthermore, depositional plains can be grouped into the following categories:
Alluvial Plains
Examples of Alluvial plains include:
Glacial Plains (formed from the movement of glaciers under the influence of gravity)
This type of depositional plain can be categorized as:
Examples of Glacial plains:
Abyssal Plains
Planitia
Lava plain
Lacustrine plain
Erosional Plains
Examples of plains in this category include:
Structural Plains
Examples of structural plain landforms are:
Location of Plain Landforms
Importance of Plain Landforms
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Content: Also, the approximate flatness of the various plain landforms facilitates mechanization of crop production. Population and settlements are usually concentrated on plains. This is because, towns are easily laid out on the approximately flat landform found on plains. The landform could be of great economic importance when traversed by rivers. Such plain landforms traversed by rivers make irrigation of farmlands on plains much easier than on any other land form used in agriculture. Plain landforms such as alluvial terraces attract good settlements and population concentration because of the advantage it offers over valley-bottom flood plains which is usually subject to annual or periodic flooding and hill slopes which may be too steep and rocky to cultivate. Plain landforms are excellent for sporting activities as they provide a levelled ground for sports and other recreational activities. Plains provide good communication routes such as railways, roads, airports
Plains are good sources of mineral resources such as Coal, Tin and Petroleum
Sources: Resource library | encyclopaedic entry. Plain, Retrieved from https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/plain/
http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/plainmr.htm
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Sonia Madaan is a writer and founding editor of science education blog EarthEclipse.