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Significados de alluvion en inglés
An overflowing; an inundation or flood, especially when the water is charged with much suspended material.\ (Source: BJGEO)
Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down.
Sinónimos
Examples for "alluvium"
Examples for "alluvium"
1
From Barka to Metemma we find alluvium as the general formation.
2
The river has its course through the alluvium, like the Soane.
3
The deep alluvium of the plain furnishes no stone whatever for such purposes.
4
They are found in a sandy alluvium which is very boggy when wet.
5
The finer material constituting alluvium, often described as ''silt,'' is sand and mud.
1
This he spat out, and so gradually formed by alluvial deposit an island.
2
The soil upon the plain was an alluvial deposit; that in the brushes was sandy.
3
It prefers a rich, strong soil or alluvial deposit.
4
The soil was an alluvial deposit, superficially sandy; and many shells were scattered over its surface.
5
The ground under us was an alluvial deposit, and bore all the marks of frequent inundation.
Uso de alluvion en inglés
1
The level surface of this alluvion is illustrated by the very slight descent of the Jhelam.
2
Most of the mountains are arable, and even the prairies, in this section of the republic, are of deep alluvion.
3
The whole party crowded to the spot where Uncas pointed out the impression of a moccasin in the moist alluvion.
4
Probable depth of alluvion is about one fifth of a mile, by inference from the depth of the Gulf of Mexico.'
5
The banks consisted of dark alluvion ten to fifteen feet above the water, bearing a dense growth of trees and shrubbery.
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.
7
But it may be alledged ,thatthose sand banks are increasing still with the alluvion of Germany, instead of being in a decreasing state.
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.
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.
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.
11
20 Moreover, soil which a river has added to your land by alluvion becomes yours by the law of nations.
Colocaciones frecuentes
Translations for alluvion
Alluvion a través del tiempo