Alluvium (from Latin alluvius, from alluere 'to wash against') is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream...
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Colluvium (section Compared to alluvium)
setting. Alluvium is sand, clay, or other similar detrital material deposited by running water. The distinction between colluvium and alluvium relates...
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Alluvium is open source peercasting software developed by the Foundation for Decentralization Research, first released in 2003. It comprises three components...
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surrounding area, spreading nutrients to the surrounding area. Sediment or alluvium carried by rivers shapes the landscape around it, forming deltas and islands...
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Swartland Alluvium Fynbos is a critically endangered vegetation type that occurs on the high plains and mountains in the far south-west of the Western...
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Indo-Gangetic Plain has one of the world's biggest stretches of fertile not-deep alluvium and are among the most densely populated areas of the world. The eastern...
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are the result of an existing valley being filled with alluvium. The valley may fill with alluvium for many different reasons including: an influx in bed...
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formed of alluvium in between two rivers known as Doab is found here. Bhangar : The flood plains formed due to deposition of older alluvium is known as...
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mapped, the superficial deposits will be mapped instead (for example, as alluvium). Geology portal Geography portal Maps portal Minerals portal Jackson,...
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Himalayas, which feed its numerous rivers and are the source of the fertile alluvium deposited across the region by the two river systems. The southern edge...
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Lourensford Alluvium Fynbos is a critically endangered vegetation type that is endemic to Cape Town. Though closest to Fynbos, it has characteristics of...
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6, 1962 Nevada Test Site Crater 635 ft (194 m) Alluvium 104 Storax An excavation experiment in alluvium to determine feasibility of using nuclear explosions...
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In Madagascar, spessartines are exploited either in their bedrock or in alluvium. The orange garnets result from sodium-rich pegmatites. Spessartines are...
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as the solid matter carried by a stream. Streams can carry sediment, or alluvium. The amount of load it can carry (capacity) as well as the largest object...
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floodplain is made up of mixed alluvium. The piedmont plain on the fringe of the Ragay Hills consists of fine alluvium clay and reworked colluviums. The...
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and widened the floodplain, which slowly buried the Roman settlement in alluvium and gradually moved new construction to higher ground; concurrently the...
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belt lies south of the adjacent Bhabar region and is composed of newer alluvium. The underground streams reappear in this region. The region is excessively...
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two broad types, viz. the red ferruginous soil in the hill area and the alluvium in the valley. The valley soils generally contain loam, small rock fragments...
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Swartland Alluvium Fynbos – Vegetation type endemic to the high plains and mountains in the Western Cape, South Africa Swartland Alluvium Renosterveld...
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Parent material (section Alluvium)
finer near the edges of the fan. Delta deposits, the third of type of alluvium, are finer sediments that are discharged from streams into lakes and eventually...
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bank. The largely low-lying county was dominated by clay in its north and alluvium on gravel in its south. In the north, the boundary ran along a WSW/ENE...
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fertile coastal plain is formed of marine sediments and river deposited alluvium alternating with sandy bays and rocky beaches. Lebanon's mountains rise...
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emerged on the subcontinent in the western margins of the Indus River alluvium approximately 9,000 years ago, evolving gradually into the Indus Valley...
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Appalachian tectonics from ages of detrital monazite and zircon in modern alluvium. Geosphere, 7(2) pp. 1–19. Hill, J., Wooten, R., Cattanach, B., Bauer,...
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the United States Geological Survey, Brownsville's soils are primarily alluvium and windblown deposits. The majority of the city's soil is made of floodplain...
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Grone, Anthony J. (1 January 1978). "Diagenesis in first-cycle desert alluvium of Cenozoic age, southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico". GSA...
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perfection. It will succeed in almost any soil but prefers a rich loam or black alluvium, and, though naturally a plant of rather dry places, will do well in moist...
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the South Asia and its implications for correlation of late pleistocene alluvium". Quaternary Research. 40 (1): 10–19. Bibcode:1993QuRes..40...10A. doi:10...
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T are Tertiary marine strata, V are volcanic rocks, and Q are Quaternary alluvium. The black triangles indicate the Late Eocene Hatillo Thrust fault....
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year 69 CE. In the years following the destruction, winter rains washed alluvium from the hills to the valley and down the slopes of Mount Zion to the west...
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