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stream bed, on a floodplain, in an
alluvial fan or beach, or in
similar settings.
Alluvium is also
sometimes called alluvial deposit.
Alluvium is typically...
- An
alluvial fan is an ac****ulation of
sediments that fans
outwards from a
concentrated source of sediments, such as a
narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment...
- on flow,
alluvial diagrams are
named after alluvial fans that are
naturally formed by the soil
deposited from
streaming water. In an
alluvial diagram,...
- An
alluvial plain is a
plain (a
largely flat landform)
created by the
deposition of
sediment over a long
period of time by one or more
rivers coming from...
- The
Mississippi River Alluvial Plain is an
alluvial plain created by the
Mississippi River on
which lie
parts of
seven U.S. states, from
southern Louisiana...
- of sand
deposited by sea
currents on the
continental shelves fluvial or
alluvial islands formed in
river deltas or
midstream within large rivers. While...
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about 90% of the
marshes had been drained. The
marshes lie on a flat
alluvial plain, as the
Euphrates decreases only 12 m (39 ft) in
elevation during...
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accounting for
approximately 90% of
global supply.
Diamonds are also
mined alluvially over dis**** areas,
where diamonds have been
eroded out of the ground...
- A
riparian forest or
riparian woodland is a
forested or
wooded area of land
adjacent to a body of
water such as a river, stream, pond, lake, marshland...
- A
marsh is —
according to
ecological definitions — a
wetland that is
dominated by
herbaceous rather than
woody plant species. More in general, the word...