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Sentence Examples On the alluvial flats of the Cook Inlet a tented camp was pitched to billet the navvies. Sediment-laden streams carve deep, steep-sided valleys which, where they debouch into adjacent lowlands, produce alluvial fans. The distinguishing feature of the lowermost sequence is the presence of coal or carbonaceous shale within alluvial and lacustrine strata. Late Tertiary and Quaternary glacial, alluvial and lacustrine sediments are widespread adjacent to the mountains and in intermontane basins. Flat alluvial fields rise up from the river to meet undulating slopes and escarpments that have been in cultivation since the sixteenth century. The white syringa prefers sandy or alluvial soils while the mountain syringa grows more readily in a clay loam soil. They grade both northward and southward into coalesced alluvial fans forming the bajada that flanks the margins of the mountains. Archaeologists have assumed that Mill Creek agricultural fields were located on easily cultivated alluvial stream terraces. The coastal maritime region is filled with mangrove swamps and alluvial plains that support palm trees. The river overflows its banks and floods the land with fresh water and deposits a thick layer of rich alluvial soil. Most coarse-grained clastic sediment that is deposited in turbidite basins is either derived from alluvial basins or shallow marine shelves. And that as a result, the land mass now actually sinks, because it's fine alluvial soil. While still high, mortality in oak-hickory and oak-pine forests was lower than that of cove and alluvial forests. A modified hypsometric curve can be used to help describe the relationships between drainage, alluvial and shallow marine basins. Downstream trends of alluvial channel geometry have also been explained in terms of energy expenditure. When the alluvial gold had petered out the family left, as did all the other diggers, and settled in Port Augusta. Initial subsidence was marked by accumulation of relatively immature alluvial fan and associated deposits in localized piedmont depocentres. He settled on the swampy alluvial deposit of a muddy river with his minder. In Mozambique, gold has occasionally been panned from alluvial deposits close to the Zimbabwe border. Valleys to the north of the drainage divide are drowned and flooded by the sea, whereas to the south the valleys are still alluvial. Show More Sentences Councillors told us that in order for wild flowers to flourish the rich alluvial silt must be removed. Oak woodland develops best in moist, protected canyons and valleys with deep alluvial soils. The style of winemaking is a perfect expression of the coolish climate and alluvial soils of the Wairarapa. Most recently, the alluvial gem gravels of the Songea and Tunduru regions in the south have been productive. After the alluvial gold had been mined, companies were formed to start reef mining. The sediments were laid down in the late Pleistocene as broad alluvial fans derived from the nearby Santa Monica Mountains. Above these sedimentary rocks is a sequence of interbedded alluvial floodplain deposits and palaeosols. A tube containing 6 grams of alluvial gold from the Cernavaia River also has a bicolor character. These pioneer prospectors practiced surface mining, obtaining gold from the alluvial deposits called placers. The Copper River alluvial fan is an outwash plain, that is, formed from sediments deposited by glacial meltwater. Deposits in the Solund Basin consist almost entirely of alluvial fan conglomerates. Although heavy mineral zonations are well developed in some alluvial strata, other alluvial systems may be more homogeneous. Up to 2000 m of alluvial fan and fan delta deposits of early Cretaceous age are preserved in the Coastal Cordillera. Roughly 25 percent of the land is off-limits because of the rich alluvial diamond deposits. Gentle but steady water movement produced by slow flow through lakes and meandering backwater stream channels provides aeration and slow accretion of alluvial sediments. The desert ends with a steeply shelving cliff against the ocean, where layers of alluvial accretion are exposed like a lesson in geological stratification. This extant gastropod, like its Pennsylvanian relative, is dominantly a deposit feeder, grazing on vegetable detritus and algae within seasonal alluvial channels. Marine deposition was followed by alluvial progradation marking the onset of continental deposition, which dominated the rest of the Triassic in the region. The soil at the experimental site was a Lawes brown black clay loam, which is a moderately fertile deep alluvial, weakly cracking vertisol that was well drained. The Saharan winds were blowing sand onto fertile hillsides, and when it rained the water was cutting gullies through the rich alluvial soil along the wadi. Show More Sentences Somewhat surprisingly, tiny crystals were found with rhodolite garnet and corundum during alluvial gem mining in streams draining Mason Mountain, Macon County, North Carolina. In addition, secondary topaz crystals, released from matrix by erosional forces, have been found in both alluvial and colluvial sediments adjacent to topaz-bearing pegmatites. The one last night was pretty mild, and mountains pulsate less than alluvial land, but no matter how many times you're shaken, you never get used to quakes. The fertile soil is fine-textured, alluvial, loamy and free from boulders. In the central and eastern parts of the range, the northern margin is also sharply defined, but separates bedrock from glacial and alluvial sediments or bedrock inliers. Silicate minerals constitute most alluvial sediment on Earth. A recommendation for a soil classification chart that provides a good classification for alluvial and loessial deposits for central Illinois will be developed. Tectonic uplands bordering active faults are usually drained by steep catchments feeding alluvial fans, adjacent examples of which coalesce to define continuous bajadas. Water-transported sediments formed alluvial fan deposits that were laid down on essentially flat-lying volcanic flows by streams flowing toward the center of the rift basin. The topographic expression of these gravels suggests they represent uplifted and dissected alluvial fans that accumulated along the foot of the Western Ranges. The largest stands are found not along the larger river channels but along slow-moving, meandering tributary streams where alluvial deposition is occurring. The imagery shows an alluvial fan of material washed down from the rim, streaked by many apparent channels, sitting uphill of the new finds. The surface of the state may properly be divided into two parts, the uplands of the north, and the alluvial along the coast. On the first contract, care was needed at the River Calder crossing due to the alluvial bedrock. The alluvial soil deposited by the rivers when they overflow their banks has created some of the most fertile plains in the world. The Bangladesh Plain is famous for its fertile alluvial soil which supports extensive cultivation. The fertile areas are to be found in the alluvial deposits in wadis, basins, and oases. Rivers can generally be classified as either alluvial, bedrock, or some mix of the two. A small and separate basin exists here where both alluvial and lacustrine deposits are recorded. During the Quaternary glaciations, Brittany was covered by loess and rivers started to fill the valleys with alluvial deposits. Show More Sentences It was coined by peasants to describe alluvial embankments and rims found near the margins of glaciers in the French Alps. The water thus gradually deposits the sediment as it runs, creating an alluvial plain. Meanwhile, meltwater within and beneath the ice leaves stratified alluvial deposits. They were made redundant with the introduction of explosives, although hydraulic mining is still used on alluvial tin ores. Heading west, the coast is an expanse of alluvial deposits stretching to the mouth of Glamorgan's most well known river, the River Taff. Areas where more particles are dropped are called alluvial or flood plains, and the dropped particles are called alluvium. It is probable that any section of such an alluvial plain would show deposits of a similar character. The first consists mainly of sand dunes and clayey alluvial soils in the polders. Examples of continental environments are lagoons, lakes, swamps, floodplains and alluvial fans. The West Siberian Plain consists mostly of Cenozoic alluvial deposits and is somewhat flat. The western coast is alluvial or terraced, while the eastern coast is highly indented with pronounced karstification. The Pearl River Delta is actually two alluvial deltas, separated by the core branch of the Pearl River. It commanded the rich alluvial plain of the Pearl River Delta, with its connection to the sea protected at the Humen Strait. The river that originates in the Mantaro River Valley, is called the Mantaro River that flows near the Jauja town into a large alluvial plain. In the alluvial areas of southeastern Tasmania, rich alluvial soils permit apples to be grown. Further inland and along the riverbanks, the soil is mostly alluvial and loamy. After emerging from the Qingtong Gorge, the river comes into a section of vast alluvial plains, the Yinchuan Plain and Hetao Plain. The geology of this area is dominated by London Clay in the east, Bagshot Sands in the west and alluvial deposits along the rivers. The soil is alluvial, derived from Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian rocks. The ground was fertile, with alluvial, or unconsolidated, soil. Show More Sentences Snow Creek is a tiny village off of Highway 111 near I-10 nestled on an alluvial fan at the foot of the San Jacinto Mountains. If we look more broadly in Gale Crater, we can see that there is a prominent feature that geologists call an alluvial fan. It included hydraulic mining to prospect for ore by removing overburden as well as work alluvial deposits. The site is between the north rim of Gale Crater and the base of Mount Sharp on the downslope of an alluvial fan. The landing site was located on an alluvial fan at the foot of a mountain range and less than a kilometer from the shoreline of a playa lake. Bracketing the alluvial fans were the first low and rocky hills of the Andes. As you head up it, you'll see how South Boulder Creek sliced the alluvial fans of red sandstone into a narrow canyon. Work is also continuing on the development of Redaurum's alluvial diamond mines at Quaggas Kop and Avontuur in South Africa. The only site where Lycopodium lucidulum is found is approximately 50 feet west of the south end of the alluvial plain. Also in the 1930s prospector Ben Nicker extracted alluvial gold and gold from quartz reefs in the area around what is now called Mt Nicker. The indications of tidal processes suggest that these deposits are not alluvial and have formed in deltaic or estuarine settings. The alluvial lands along other streams present similar features. Geomorphologically, the area lies on the former alluvial terrace on the left bank of the Jarama River Basin on quaternary calcareous sediments with high carbonate values. The soils are formed mainly of Devonian dolomite, dolomite marlstone, and clay bedrocks, moraine clayey material, sandy eolic and alluvial deposits. The Quaternary alluvial deposits cover the study area, which includes lagoonal deposits, recent delta deposits, red clays, gravel and sandy materials. The key units relevant to this study were emergent alluvial point bars and forced pool, pool, chute, recirculation, run, riffle entrance, glide, backwater and riffle. The dominant soil types are purple, rendzina and yellow alluvial soil. The most widespread zonal vegetation is that of the microphyllous desert, a desertscrub that flourishes on regosols and on Quaternary coarse alluvial plains and lower bajadas. At Redaurum's other South African alluvial diamond mine, Quaggas Kop, bulk sampling on the neighbouring exploration property, Rooiberg, was underway. The proposed task force will address issues related to unique flood hazards associated with the rapid rate of housing development on alluvial fans. Show More Sentences Potter considers them to be the remains of a series of coalescing alluvial fan deposits from the ancestral Tennessee, Cumberland, and Mississippi Rivers. The trunk of the stream recharges the alluvial fan and possibly even the Mississippi River alluvial aquifer where alluvial fans and the river alluvium inter-finger. The AVA is situated on an alluvial fan of the Walla Walla River, where the river exits the foothills of the Blue Mountains and enters the Walla Walla Valley. Zurich lies on the alluvial fan of the Sihl, a natural floodplain. Almost all of Manila sits on top of centuries of prehistoric alluvial deposits built by the waters of the Pasig River and on some land reclaimed from Manila Bay. It is located west of the Paraguay River and east of the Andes, and is mostly an alluvial sedimentary plain shared among Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina. In general, only the submerged wooden parts have been preserved in the alluvial sediment, although in some places pile buildings have been reconstructed. There are more than 20 other rivers flowing into the Adriatic Sea in Italy alone, also forming alluvial coastlines, including the lagoons of Venice, Grado and Caorle. At one site, Montefurado in Galicia, they appear to have built a dam across the river Sil to expose alluvial gold deposits in the bed of the river. The body of rock, or facies, is dominated by alluvial sediments and conglomerates at its base, and progresses to a combination of dunes, lakes and river sediments. For alluvial streams, straight and braided rivers have very low sinuosity and flow directly down hill, while meandering rivers flow from side to side across a valley. The morphology of an alluvial river reach is controlled by a combination of sediment supply, substrate composition, discharge, vegetation, and bed aggradation. There is an expanse of alluvial plains along it in the Punjab and Sindh. Thereafter, it flows through broad alluvial plains and swamps in the centre of the basin with the two main tributaries the Bahr el Ghazel and the Sobat joining it. Examples from Classical Literature It is, however, much more common in alluvial grounds than among primitive and pyrogenous rocks. Half an hour's walk brought us to Vista Alegre, another little clearing on an alluvial fan in the bend of the river. Undoubtedly this alluvial fan had been highly prized in this country of terribly steep hills. The stones at Beled had been the first signs that we were off the alluvial plain. In this distance no rock strata appeared, nor any formation other than a jutting ridge of sand, or an alluvial plain. These terraces vary in height at different parts of the valley from 100 to 300 ft. above the alluvial plain. The country itself was an alluvial plain, formed by the silt deposited each year by the Tigris and Euphrates. The alluvial plain extending behind the marshes was as rich and fertile as that of Chalda. The western tract between the Mahananda and the main stream of the Ganges is an alluvial plain of sandy soil and great fertility. Below the city, on the left bank, one of these terraces projects into the alluvial plain of the Meuse. The natives collected the latter in the alluvial tracts watered by the Tacazze, the Blue Nile and its tributaries. Kankar or ghutin is collected for this purpose from the river-beds and alluvial deposits. Its banks are diluvial or alluvial formations, elevated from six to ten feet. Islands have proportionately a scanter allowance of fertile alluvial lowlands than have continents. The greater portion lies within the doab or level alluvial plain between the Ganges and the Jumna. Here in this rich alluvial plain population might, expectedly, be dense at a very early period. It forms part of the wide gangetic plain, and its surface is accordingly composed of a thick alluvial deposit. The alluvial plain of the Punjab passes into that of the gangetic valley without visible interruption. Indian corn or Maize, flourishes in high perfection on the intervales, which are generally composed of alluvial soil. Extensive areas in the interior, more especially towards Lake Chad, are covered with black earth of alluvial or lacustrine origin. Show More Sentences Deep sunk in a subtropical valley, the irrigable alluvial land of Abancay tempts the production of sugar. The alluvial platforms are of great extent, and so nearly level, that no terracing is required for purposes of irrigation. Where were the familiar poppet heads, the heaps of mullock, and the diligently fossicked alluvial? The ostrich fern is fairly common in alluvial soil over the United States and Canada. Gold is, however, much more common in the alluvial grounds than among the primitive and pyrogenous rocks just described. The city was built in the midst of an alluvial country, far removed from the hills. It was an alluvial town, called Soledad, where there was no harbour or future or recourse. Steep valleys descend from the higher country to join the main valley and at the mouth of every tributary is an alluvial fan. The alluvial soil of these islands is a marvel of fertility. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. The river Rhone meanders through an alluvial plain framed by distant hills, inviting colonisation. All the conditions were favourable to deep-leads of alluvial. In many places the alluvial soil is not more than a few inches in depth. In their place an extensive delta and alluvial fan have been formed. All below, and indeed far above, was alluvial, or of recent origin. Late Carboniferous tropical dryland vegetation in an alluvial plain setting, Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada. Every year the floods deposited a rich alluvial soil on this spot, where there should be no difficulty in growing osiers. The claim is located on a property which has abundance of alluvial minerals. The alluvial plains on the side appeared fertile, and it is supposed that they are well adapted to the growth of corn. Dozens of other specialized species have likewise adapted to the rich muck and periodic overflows of the Mississippi River alluvial plain. Show More Sentences The soils have developed on different physiographic units including alluvial plains, piedmont plains, plateaux, and lowlands. The alluvial plain of Babylonia was the gift of the two great rivers. There is no sand dune cover within the Licence area and the topography comprises low hills with intervening narrow drainages and alluvial plains. Millions of tons of silt have been deposited in this great alluvial basin. The banks of the River St. Clair are wholly alluvial or diluvial. Also, in minute folia, in the alluvial soil of the Upper Mississippi. To the south is the rich, alluvial plain made by the delta of the Jordan. The banks were generally alluvial, and thickly grown with cottonwood trees, intermingled occasionally with ash and plum trees. Most of the Bali gold samples are made of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-silver alloy panned from alluvial deposits. The pecan tree is a native tree of bottomlands and alluvial plains. It is grown in the low, flat alluvial plains south of Los Palacios. Soil structure destruction in the physiography of the alluvial plain is substantially less because it is situated along the riverbank and enjoys a natural drainage system. The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phoenix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between. 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What is the opposite of alluvial? Words that rhyme with alluvial What is the plural of alluvial? What is the adverb for alluvial? What is the adjective for alluvial? What is the noun for alluvial? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words alluvia allusory allusiveness allusively allusive allusions alluvial fan alluvial plain alluvial soil alluvion alluvium all walks of life 8-letter Words Starting With a al all allu alluv alluvi alluvia