Alluvium (Noun)
Meaning
Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
Examples
- The valley was rich in alluvium, having been deposited over centuries by the seasonal flooding of the nearby river.
- Alluvium collected in the stagnant waters near the lake, slowly filling the natural harbor.
- River beds can accumulate alluvium rapidly after floods or spring melts when heavy run-off overburdens streams and carries them.
- Vineyards benefit greatly from a substrata rich in alluvium that, otherwise transported further, drops within places we associate a combination fertility- diversity including variety far over traditional ideas both slope selection all place fertile nature ultimately produce several beneficial chemicals increasing area demand variety wide slope positioning just most, greatly important really big farming etc also fertilized...
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