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Significados de alluvion en inglés

portugués
enchente
catalán
inundació
español
inundación

An overflowing; an inundation or flood, especially when the water is charged with much suspended material.\ (Source: BJGEO)

        inundación
        portugués
        aluvião
        catalán
        alluvio
        español
        sedimento aluvial

        Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down.

              sedimento aluvial
              Uso de alluvion en inglés
              1
              The level surface of this alluvion is illustrated by the very slight descent of the Jhelam.
              Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22...
              2
              Most of the mountains are arable, and even the prairies, in this section of the republic, are of deep alluvion.
              The Prairie
              3
              The whole party crowded to the spot where Uncas pointed out the impression of a moccasin in the moist alluvion.
              The Last of the Mohicans
              4
              Probable depth of alluvion is about one fifth of a mile, by inference from the depth of the Gulf of Mexico.'
              Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 / Devoted to Lit...
              5
              The banks consisted of dark alluvion ten to fifteen feet above the water, bearing a dense growth of trees and shrubbery.
              Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
              6
              Napoleon said it was an alluvion of French rivers,-theRhine, the Scheldt, and the Meuse,-andwith this pretext he added it to the Empire.
              Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
              7
              But it may be alledged ,thatthose sand banks are increasing still with the alluvion of Germany, instead of being in a decreasing state.
              Theory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations, Volume 2 (of...
              8
              A level-topped bank; the water has cut its way down through the soft alluvion of an elevated plain to the limestone rock at the bottom.
              Lectures on Landscape / Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871
              9
              Along the base of cliffs and highlands-throughthe deep alluvions of countless ages-among stately forests and across extended plains, it flows without cessation.
              Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western Stat...
              10
              Alluvion never attached at all in the case of agri limitati, that is, lands belonging to the state and leased or sold in plots.
              The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
              11
              20 Moreover, soil which a river has added to your land by alluvion becomes yours by the law of nations.
              The Institutes of Justinian
              Translations for alluvion
              Alluvion a través del tiempo