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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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They were alluvial deposit of the stream of life lodged in the delta of Fifth Avenue and Broadway.
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Every great plain is the alluvial deposit of a great river, ultimately derived from a great mountain chain.
8
The soil, although an alluvial deposit, is not of the best; nor was vegetation either fresh or close upon it.
9
The sod removed, there was exposed a rectangle of black soil, for the earth was of alluvial deposit and easy of digging.
10
In the Nile valley in Egypt nine towns, in one location, have been unearthed, each town in a different strata of alluvial deposit.
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Their soil is composed of the very richest alluvial deposit, and has produced some of the finest crops of wheat in the province.
12
Few soils come amiss to the Tulip Tree, it thriving well in that of very opposite descriptions-loam ,almostpure gravel, and alluvial deposit.
13
Egypt has been an extraordinary instance of the actual formation of a country by alluvial deposit; it has been CREATED by a single river.
14
This stream caused so much alluvial deposit that the sea receded from Richborough in early Saxon times, and part of the population removed to Sandwich.
15
He had scouted the coast earlier and seen several alluvial deposits.
16
He reiterated: The richest gold in all alluvial deposits is found upon bed-rock.
