Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down.
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Examples for "alluvium"
Examples for "alluvium"
1From Barka to Metemma we find alluvium as the general formation.
2The river has its course through the alluvium, like the Soane.
3The deep alluvium of the plain furnishes no stone whatever for such purposes.
4They are found in a sandy alluvium which is very boggy when wet.
5The finer material constituting alluvium, often described as ''silt,'' is sand and mud.
1The level surface of this alluvion is illustrated by the very slight descent of the Jhelam.
2Most of the mountains are arable, and even the prairies, in this section of the republic, are of deep alluvion.
3The whole party crowded to the spot where Uncas pointed out the impression of a moccasin in the moist alluvion.
4Probable depth of alluvion is about one fifth of a mile, by inference from the depth of the Gulf of Mexico.'
5The banks consisted of dark alluvion ten to fifteen feet above the water, bearing a dense growth of trees and shrubbery.
1This he spat out, and so gradually formed by alluvial deposit an island.
2The soil upon the plain was an alluvial deposit; that in the brushes was sandy.
3It prefers a rich, strong soil or alluvial deposit.
4The soil was an alluvial deposit, superficially sandy; and many shells were scattered over its surface.
5The ground under us was an alluvial deposit, and bore all the marks of frequent inundation.
Translations for alluvial sediment