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Alluvial plain

Okay kiddo, an alluvial plain is like a big piece of land that's really flat and smooth. It's formed when rivers and streams carry a lot of dirt and sand down from mountains or hills and deposit it in a plain area. This happens over a really long time, so the plain gets bigger and bigger.

Think of it like making a sandcastle at the beach. You take a bunch of wet sand and form it into a mound. Then when the waves come in, they wash away some of the sand from the mound and deposit it on the flat part of the beach. This would eventually create a big flat area, which is like an alluvial plain.

These plains are really useful for farming because they usually have lots of nutrients from all the stuff that was carried down by the rivers. People also like to build towns and cities on alluvial plains because they're easy to build on and are good places for transportation routes like roads and railways.
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