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The differing drainage basins in the UK There are many natural factors influencing how a drainage basins main channel responds to rainfall, in this essay I hope write in detail the different natural factors, the opposition influencing these natural factors and the consequences on the volume of water flowing down the drainage basin to the main channel or river. Alongside stream channels are relatively flat areas of land known as floodplains, flood plains develop when streams and rivers overflow their levees spreading discharge and suspended sediments over the land surface during floods. Levees are ridges found along the sides of stream channels or rivers composed of sand or gravel. Levees are approximately one half to four times the diameter of the river (stream channel). Upon retreat of the floodwaters, stream and river velocities decrease causing the deposition of alluvium, repeated flood cycles over time can result in the deposition of many successive layers...

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