A fan-shaped deposit where a fast flowing stream flattens out.
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Examples for "alluvial fan"
Examples for "alluvial fan"
1So he made a quick sketch of the landscape, the canyon mouth, the alluvial fan, and then drew the trench.
2Above Curiosity's landing site, orbiters have photographed an alluvial fan (below) -a fan-shapedarea where debris once spread out.
3The giant shale seemed to melt away into this alluvial fan of snow like a turbulent stream feeding into glassy, slow water.
4The enemy's position consisted of a line of sangars blocking the roads from the river up to the alluvial fan on which they were placed.
5And the alluvial fans are no good either-flashflooding.
1The oversteepened sides of the trough are graded by landslips, by talus slopes, and by alluvial cones.
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