Eluviation is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Eluviation in a sentence
Eluviation meaning
- The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall
- Creation of geological deposits (eluvial deposits) by in situ weathering or weathering plus gravitational movement or accumulation.
Using Eluviation
- The main meaning on this page is: The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall | Creation of geological deposits (eluvial deposits) by in situ weathering or weathering plus gravitational movement or accumulation.
Context around Eluviation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 14 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Eluviation
- In this selection, "eluviation" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 14 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, minerals and little stand out and add context to how "eluviation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of minerals eluviation and show little eluviation and illuviation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "eluviation" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with eluviation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They have subsurface horizon formation but show little eluviation and illuviation. (11 words)
The master horizon, E, is used for subsurface horizons that have a significant loss of minerals (eluviation). (17 words)
The master horizon, E, is used for subsurface horizons that have a significant loss of minerals (eluviation). (17 words)
They have subsurface horizon formation but show little eluviation and illuviation. (11 words)
Example sentences (2)
The master horizon, E, is used for subsurface horizons that have a significant loss of minerals (eluviation).
They have subsurface horizon formation but show little eluviation and illuviation.