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alluvion

/ə'luviən/

noun
clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
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Similar:

alluvial deposit alluvial sediment alluvium

type of:
deposit sediment
noun
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
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Similar:

deluge flood inundation

type of:
geological phenomenon
noun
gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
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type of:
geological process geologic process

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