About The Word Alluvion
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Alluvion
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What's The Definition Of Alluvion?
[n] clay or slit or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
[n] the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"1 [n] gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment Synonyms | Synonyms for Alluvion: alluvial deposit | alluvial sediment | alluvium | deluge | flood | inundation Related Terms | Find terms related to Alluvion: See Also | alluvial soil | debacle | deposit | flash flood | flashflood | geological phenomenon | geological process | placer | sediment Alluvion In Webster's Dictionary \Al*lu"vi*on\, n. [F. alluvion, L. alluvio, fr. alluere
to wash against; ad + luere, equiv. to lavare, to wash. See
{Lave}.]
1. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
2. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. --Lyell.
3. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing
water; alluvium.
The golden alluvions are there [in California and
Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are
found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their
beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast
plains. --R. Cobden.
4. (Law) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore
or bank by the flowing of water. See {Accretion}.
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