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- Colluvium (also colluvial material or colluvial soil) is a general name for loose, unconsolidated sediments that have been deposited at the base of hillslopes...
- origin. Alluvium and diluvium were grouped together as colluvium in the late 19th century. "Colluvium" is now generally understood to mean sediments produced...
- literature is somewhat relaxed, and it often overlaps with both talus and colluvium. The term scree comes from the Old Norse term for landslide, skriða, while...
- duration rains triggered debris flows and shallow slides developed in colluvium and weathered rocks. A rainfall threshold of around 190 mm in 24 h initiated...
- resistance of the ground surface. Channel heads are often ****ociated with colluvium, hollows and landslides. Overland flow is a primary factor in channel...
- on the valley colluvium are thicker than the nearby areas. Woody plants and large bushes dominate the vegetation. Debris fan colluvium refers to the aggregates...
- either talus, in the case of the talus flatirons, or pedisediment and colluvium that cover pediments, in the case of pediment flatirons. Their surfaces...
- from the parent rock. Sandy soils, rock outcrops and rubble and stony colluvium account for over 70% of the land area in the basin. The basin soils (in...
- Confinement system used in construction and geotechnical engineering Colluvium – Loose, unconsolidated sediments deposited at the base of a hillslope...
- luere (see also diluere, fluere and pluere) abluent, ablution, alluvium, colluvium, deluge, depollute, diluent, dilute, dilution, dilutive, diluvial, diluvian...