Meaning of ALLUVIUM
| Pronunciation: | | u'looveeum
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| | Definition: | | [n] clay or slit or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down |
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| | Synonyms: | | alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvion |
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| | See Also: | | alluvial soil, deposit, placer, sediment | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Al*lu"vi*um\, n.; pl. E. {Alluviums}, L. {Alluvia}.
[L., neut. of alluvius. See {Alluvious}.] (Geol.)
Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported
matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land
not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or
seas. --Lyell.
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| | Definition: | | - Material deposited by running water, including the sediments laid down in riverbeds, flood plains, lakes and estuaries.
- Deposit of stream-borne materials in and along a channel.
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| | Definition: | | a general term for all deposits laid down in fresh water - most commonly applied to riverine sediments. |
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| | Related Terms: | | acres, alluvion, arable land, ash, cataclysm, cinder, clay, clinker, clod, crust, debris, deluge, deposit, deposition, deposits, detritus, diluvium, dirt, draff, dregs, drift, dross, dry land, dust, earth, ember, engulfment, feces, flood, freehold, froth, glebe, grassland, ground, grounds, inundation, land, landholdings, lees, lithosphere, loess, marginal land, marl, mold, moraine, offscum, overflow, overflowing, overrunning, precipitate, precipitation, real estate, real property, region, regolith, scoria, scree, scum, sediment, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut, sod, soil, soot, spill, spillage, subaerial deposit, sublimate, submersion, subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, the Deluge, the Flood, topsoil, washout, whelming, woodland |
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