alluvial
adjective
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Pronunciation: /əˈluː.vi.əl/
adj
Etymology: From Latin alluvius (“alluvial”), from alluviō (“an overflowing, inundation”), from alluō (“wash against”). By surface analysis, alluvium + -ial.
- Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.
“I am a working engineer from the Mount Magdalena district of Coolgardie. I don't want to take up your time with outside details so I will only say that about two years ago I had an opportunity of acquiring a share in a very promising claim—gold, you understand, both reef and alluvial.”
“Soils are a prominent feature of floodplain environments, and we include them in this section because most of the available information on ancient soils pertains to alluvial examples, aside from those in Quaternary-Recent time.”
noun
Etymology: From Latin alluvius (“alluvial”), from alluviō (“an overflowing, inundation”), from alluō (“wash against”). By surface analysis, alluvium + -ial.
- 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.