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Alluvium
Alluvium meaning
soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
Synonyms of Alluvium
Example sentences (4)
Similarly Romney Marsh and Dungeness have been formed by accumulation of alluvium.
The Indo-Gangetic belt is the world's most extensive expanse of uninterrupted alluvium formed by the deposition of silt by the numerous rivers.
These are small lakes formed when large ice blocks that are trapped in alluvium melt and produce water-filled depressions.
Thus, along much of the Brent's present-day course, one can make out the water meadows of rich alluvium, which is augmented by frequent floods.