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where mountains finally lie down and rivers throw their fertile parties.
means The flat, lowest land at the bottom of a valley, where rivers run and soil tends to be richest.
from A plain compound of two old English words. "Valley" came in after the Norman Conquest from Old French "valee," itself from Latin "vallis," a low place between hills. "Floor" is the homegrown one — Old English "flor," related to a wide family of Germanic and Celtic words for "ground" or "flat surface." So the phrase quietly marries borrowed French height-language to the oldest native word for the ground beneath your feet.
- flood built
- Most valley floors are sediment dumped by ancient floods
- farmland magnet
- Civilizations clustered here for the rich silt soil
- cold trap
- Frost pools here as heavy cold air sinks
- slowest river
- Rivers meander lazily across flat valley bottoms
- death valley
- Some floors sit below sea level entirely
death valley lowest point — badwater basin at 282 feet below sea level, california's lowest elevation
yosemite valley floor — glacially carved flatland in california's sierra nevada, 7 miles long and 1 mile wide
san fernando valley floor — los angeles basin depression spanning 440 square miles in california