Alluvial

Word ALLUVIAL
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Hyphenation al lu vi al
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Definitions and meanings of "Alluvial"

What do we mean by alluvial?

Of, relating to, or found in alluvium. adjective

Of, pertaining to, or composed of alluvium: as, alluvial deposits; alluvial soil.

A term applied to the most recent or postglacial deposits, which follow the diluvial deposits.

Alluvial soil; specifically, in Australia and New Zealand, gold-bearing alluvial soil. noun

Alluvial soil; specif., in Australia, gold-bearing alluvial soil. noun

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another. adjective

Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream. adjective

A deposition of sediment over a long period of time by a river; an alluvial layer. noun

Of or relating to alluvium adjective

A deposition of sediment over a long period of time by a river; an alluvial layer.

Alluvial soil; specifically, in Australia, gold-bearing alluvial soil.

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The word "alluvial" in example sentences

Diamonds occur in alluvial lands mostly open and comparatively level, as in India, the Brazil and the Cape. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Estimates of "prehistoric" and early historic diamond production suggest that 50 to 100,000 carats per year were found, mostly in alluvial deposits in river gravels. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Sapphires are found in alluvial soil near rocks and embedded in gneiss. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Aquifers occurring in Namibia are classified as alluvial, Kalahari, fracture, Karst or artesian aquifers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Underwater abyssal fans can be compared to terrestrial landforms known as alluvial fans. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Like the latter, the Brazilian fields were alluvial, that is, the materials were deposited by river action after having been carried to some distance from their original sources. ❋ Frank Bertram Wade (N/A)

In the great laboratory of Nature similar chemical depositions have taken place in the past, and may still be in progress; indeed, there is sound scientific reason to suppose that in certain localities this is even now the case, and that in this way much of our so-called alluvial gold has been formed, that is, by the deposition on metallic bases of the gold held in solution. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The Greeks called the alluvial deposit at the mouth of the Nile, from its shape, the Delta of the Nile. ❋ United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation (1933)

The only other chance for agriculture on the river, except Wonsits Valley, Brown's Park, and a few minor places, is below Black Canyon, in the stretches I have called the alluvial and the canyon-valley divisions. ❋ Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1894)

The whole land is alluvial, that is, formed, gradually, through thousands of years, of the rich mud deposited by the two rivers, as they spread into vast marshy flats towards the end of their course. ❋ Unknown (1879)

The higher terrace, or "second low-grounds," is commonly and erroneously called alluvial land, and its unequal formation ascribed to alluvial agency. ❋ Unknown (1861)

The SRK resource estimate includes oxide and sulfide materials as well as a small amount of in-place mineralization described as alluvial.

Further on the differences will be mentioned between "alluvial" and ❋ Unknown (N/A)

While the hotel survived, decades later it had to be torn down as it was sinking in the alluvial mud on which Wright had built it with the intention for it to float. ❋ Carole Mallory (2012)

He says, for example, Mpofu has had two years to draw up a plan to involve small-scale miners in exploiting alluvial Marange diamonds, but has failed to produce a plan. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Herodotus knew that the Nile valley flooded every year, depositing rich alluvial soil on the fertile fields on either side of the river, but he did not know why this happened. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

More of the alluvial soil of the road had dropped out at the bad place; but he took the V in reverse, overhung the front wheel as before, and from the top came ahead again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to Finance Minister Tendai Biti, the increase was funded by sales of rough stones from controversial alluvial diamond mines in eastern Zimbabwe in which the government is a 50 per cent shareholder. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"We covered the shells with alluvial soil from Plaquemines Parish and with an ecological soil from a Baton Rouge supplier." ❋ Susan Buchanan (2010)

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