alluvium is pounded and ground into finer and finer grains each time it moves downstream. From LearnThat.org. [http://geology.about.com/library/bl/images/blalluvium.htm]
The native of the alluvium is another being from the native of the great mineral State. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
As the shallow lake spreads under the boughs of the surrounding trees, it deposits a blanket of rich, fertilizing soil called alluvium. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
They are found in a sandy alluvium which is very boggy when wet. From Wordnik.com. [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference
The soil deposited by flowing water is called alluvium. From Wordnik.com. [5. How plants live and grow] Reference
Also, there are Fluventic Haploxerolls in recent alluvium. From Wordnik.com. [Santa Monica Mountains (Bailey)] Reference
They were all a soft, fine-grained alluvium, without pebbles. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The waters, which rise from alluvium, are saline and purgative. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
New Caledonia the flint heads of the lower alluvium of the Somme. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
River valleys are thickly covered with fertile volcanic alluvium. From Wordnik.com. [Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation] Reference
Himalaya, as compared with the changing alluvium of the Nile or the. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
Soils are deep, silty and clayey alluvium and support extensive cropland. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA)] Reference
Soils are derived from deep Quaternary alluvium and are naturally fertile. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Kentucky (EPA)] Reference
The deep alluvium of the plain furnishes no stone whatever for such purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Deep, sandy and silty, moderately to poorly drained alluvium covers the river valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA)] Reference
It is veneered by Quaternary alluvium, loess, glacial outwash, and lacustrine deposits. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)] Reference
It is one of the principal species on higher and older alluvium in the Indus river valley. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
The delta is composed largely of alluvium, and a large area is occupied by volcanic rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Myanmar Coast mangroves] Reference
Bottomlands and terraces are veneered with Quaternary alluvium or windblown silt deposits (loess). From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)] Reference
Upon retreat of the flood waters, stream velocities are reduced causing the deposition of alluvium. From Wordnik.com. [Fluvial landforms] Reference
The Holocene alluvium associated with Red River deposition is of variable texture and permeability. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
The surface geology of the ecoregion consists of alluvium on active and relict alluvial plains and fans. From Wordnik.com. [Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests] Reference
It is mantled by thick loess and alluvium and is underlain by weak, unconsolidated coastal plain sediments. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Kentucky (EPA)] Reference
As waters flow through the delta, they pass over Pleistocene and recent alluvium overlying Paleozoic sandstone. From Wordnik.com. [Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna] Reference
The land surface is two-thirds limestone, the rest is composed of igneous rocks, sedimentary shale, and alluvium. From Wordnik.com. [Jamaican moist forests] Reference
The groundwater occurs in consolidated materials (hard rocks) or unconsolidated materials (soft rock or alluvium). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Pleistocene, and some Plio-Pleistocene, nonmarine deposits and recent alluvium are predominant in this subsection. From Wordnik.com. [Watsonville Plain - Salinas Valley (Bailey)] Reference
Ecoregion 73a is underlain by Holocene alluvium; it lacks the Pleistocene glacial outwash deposits of Ecoregion 73b. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)] Reference
As it slows, the alluvium carried in the water is dropped, forming a deposit of this rich sediment behind the fences. From Wordnik.com. [5. How plants live and grow] Reference
A very fine chalk-clay, or "malm" as it was locally called, was formerly obtained from the alluvium in the vicinity of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
In his wanderings, he had panned the alluvium of many small streams and had recovered more than the usual amount of gold. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
They are formed from weathered arkosic sedimentary rock, gravelly alluvium, and materials weathered from sandstone and shales. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)] Reference
Soils are silty and clayey loams derived from alluvium, are not as sandy as neighboring 73b, and are generally poorly drained. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA)] Reference
Although most stands occur on alluvium along rivers, landslides and volcanic disturbances provide sites for small stands inland. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
The soils are formed from materials weathered from arkosic sedimentary rock, gravelly alluvium, and redbed shales and sandstone. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)] Reference
The nearly flat Red River Bottomlands are veneered with Holocene alluvium and have been widely cleared and drained for agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
These are intersected by alluvium-charged valleys through which streams and rivers flow inwards towards the central basin of the Upper. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The nearly flat Red River Bottomlands ecoregion is veneered with Holocene alluvium and has been widely cleared and drained for agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)] Reference
Devonshire; in the alluvium of the Thames valley; in the gravel of the valley of the Ouse, near Bedford; in a fresh-water deposit at Hoxne in. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
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