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What does colluvial mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to colluvium
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Clays transported in this way are termed by Ries colluvial clays, the term 'diluvial' is generally employed in this country.
The different plots of the Romanin domain are comprised of brown calcareous soil of colluvial origin.
Allochthonous sediments enter the cave system through a number of processes, including aeolian, fluvial, colluvial, biogenic, glacial, marine, and human activity.
Alluvial, colluvial or chemically formed gravel, clayey gravel, sandstone, limestone, tuff, scoria are examples of marginal materials.
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.
In the west are the semiarid plains, composed of colluvial material, with bedrock exposed in some areas, as in the Barrier Ranges.

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